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
- Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried...
Ancestry of “outdoor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | out- | External to, on the outside of; Toward the... |
| 2 | Romanian | -uț | Forms masculine diminutives of nouns and... |
| 3 | Latin | -utus | — |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “outdoor”