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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtə/
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• General-American: /ˈaʊtɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈaʊɾɚ]
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• homophone: outta (non-rhotic)
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• rhymes with -aʊtə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: AW1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.

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 (adjective) English -er English outer From out (adjective) + -er (“comparative suffix”).

out (verb) + -er (“agent suffix”)

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: արտաքին (artakʻin) — outside
• Asturian: esterior — outside
• Belarusian: во́нкавы (vónkavy) — outside
• Belarusian: знадво́рны (znadvórny) — outside
• Belarusian: надво́рны (nadvórny) — outside
• Bulgarian: външен (vǎnšen) — outside
• Czech: vnější — outside
• Danish: ydre — outside
• Esperanto: ekstera — outside
• Evenki: тулигу (tuligu) — outside
• Finnish: ulko- — outside
• French: extérieur — outside
• French: externe — outside
• Galician: exterior — outside
• Georgian: გარე (gare) — outside
• German: äußer- — outside
• German: außen — outside
• Ancient Greek: ἐξώτερος (exṓteros) — outside
• Hungarian: külső — outside
• Indonesian: luar — outside
• Irish: imeachtrach — outside
• Italian: esterno — outside
• Javanese: njaba — outside
• Kazakh: сыртқы (syrtqy) — outside
• Kazakh: тысқы (tysqy) — outside
• Latin: exter — outside
• Latin: exterus — outside
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ (tulergi) — outside
• Mongolian: гадаад (gadaad) — outside
• Norn: øter — outside
• Norn: øterli — outside
• Polish: zewnętrzny — outside
• Portuguese: externo — outside
• Russian: вне́шний (vnéšnij) — outside
• Russian: нару́жный (narúžnyj) — outside
• Spanish: exterior — outside
• Spanish: externo — outside
• Swedish: yttre — outside
• Telugu: బయటి (bayaṭi) — outside
• Ottoman Turkish: ظاهر (zahir) — outside
• Ukrainian: зо́внішній (zóvnišnij) — outside
• Ukrainian: надві́рний (nadvírnyj) — outside
• Welsh: allanol — outside
• Armenian: արտաքին (artakʻin) — farther from the center
• Finnish: ulommainen — farther from the center
• Finnish: ulko- — farther from the center
• Finnish: reuna- — farther from the center
• Swedish: yttre — farther from the center
• Swedish: utsida — An outer part