Word Origin Summary

Out is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *aldProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. *aldazProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. aldOld Dutchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Oud-Reeuwijk

  Dutch · inherited from

• Giessen-Oudekerk

  Dutch · inherited from

• Overschie

  Dutch · inherited from

• Oud-Kamerik

  Dutch · inherited from

• ou

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Oudenhoorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• Oudkarspel

  Dutch · inherited from

• Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root