Where does “outdoor” come from?

Outdoor comes from English out and door, where door derives from Middle English dore, Old English duru, Proto-Germanic *durz, and Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- meaning an opening or passage.

outdoor (English): Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried...

Definitions

  1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried...

Ancestry of “outdoor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishout-External to, on the outside of; Toward the...
2Romanian-uțForms masculine diminutives of nouns and...
3Latin-utus
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “outdoor

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus