Where does “outskirts” come from?
Outskirts comes from English skirt with the prefix out-, derived from Old English ūt-, from Proto-Germanic ūt, from Proto-Indo-European ud.
outskirts (English): The area surrounding a city or town; suburb;...
Definitions
- The area surrounding a city or town; suburb;...
Ancestry of “outskirts”, 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 |