outen
Meanings
prep
- Out; out of; out from.
adj
- Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.
verb
- To put out; extinguish.
name
- A surname from Dutch.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.
Derived words
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