Where does “dehors” come from?
Dehors comes from Old French defors, meaning "outside," from Late Latin deforis, a compound of de- and foris meaning "out of doors."
dehors (English): All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance...
Definitions
- All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance...
Ancestry of “dehors”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | dehors | outside; outside; outside of |
| 2 | Middle French | dehors | outside |
| 3 | Old French | defors | outside; apart from; other than |
| 4 | Latin | dē forīs | from outside |
| 5 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 6 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 7 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |