outen
/ˈaʊtən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
Out; out of; out from.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted."
- "And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’"
- "an outen man"
- "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."
- "When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: outen, ūtan, *ūtanā, *ūtanē, *úd, ove
Usage
Inflected Forms
out'n (alternative)
more outen (comparative)
most outen (superlative)
outens (present, singular)
outening (participle, present)
outened (participle, past)
outened (past)
Outens (plural)