Where does “buitengrens” come from?

buitengrens (Dutch) comes from Dutch grens, from German Grenze, from Middle High German grenize, from Old Polish granica, from Proto-Slavic grani̋ca — border, boundary, limit, a line that separates things or areas.

buitengrens (Dutch): external border

Definitions

  1. external border

Ancestry of “buitengrens”, step by step

buitengrens traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch grens

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchgrensborder, frontier; limit
2GermanGrenzeborder; limit; frontier
3Middle High Germangrenizeborder; frontier
4Old Polishgranicaborder
5Proto-Slavicgrani̋caborder, boundary, limit, a line that separates things or areas

via Dutch buiten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchbuitenoutside; outside, out of; A mansion and its...
2Middle Dutchbuten—
3Old Dutchbūtan—
4Proto-West Germanic*biūtanoutside, externally
Every word from Proto-Slavic grani̋ca →Every word from Old Polish granica →Every word from Middle High German grenize →