Where does “out” come from?

out (Middle English) comes from Old English ūt, from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic ūt, from Proto-Indo-European úd — out, outward.

Ancestry of “out”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishūtout
2Proto-West Germanic*ūtout, outward
3Proto-Germanicūtout, outward
4Proto-Indo-Europeanúdout, outward

Words derived from “out”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European úd →Every word from Proto-Germanic ūt →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *ūt →