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outen en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈaʊtən/
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.
Meanings
(dialectal) Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.
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.
Meanings
(archaic, dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’ 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
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outen en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/ˈaʊtən/
Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-West Germanic *ūt
Old English ūt
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Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *-ai
Proto-Germanic *ūtai
Proto-West Germanic *ūtē
Old English ūte
Middle English oute
English out
English -en
English outen
From out + -en.
Meanings
(dialectal, transitive) To put out; extinguish.
When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems. 2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274:
I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going. 2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017: