adj
Meaning 1
Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Examples
- an outen man
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Standard Lemma guide
outen
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/ˈaʊtən/
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rhymes with -aʊtən
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CMU ARPABET: AW1 T AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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prep
Meaning 3
Out; out of; out from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 4
To put out; extinguish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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History
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.
* As an English surname, topographic surname from Middle English ove (“above”) (from Old English ufan) + toun (“village, town”). Also a variant of Oulton, Oughton (itself from Old English Ofa + tun). * As a Dutch surname, variant spelling of Ooten.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-West Germanic *ūt Old English ūt ▲ 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.