Definition of OUTEN

outen

Prep

  • Out; out of; out from.

Adj

  • Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

Verb

  • To put out; extinguish.

Examples

  • an outen man

Origin / 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.

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