outenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtən/

語源 1

From Middle English outen, uten, from 古期英語 ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.

前置詞

outen

1. (archaic or dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker‎^[1], All-Story Cavalier Weekly:

     […] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

     And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’

形容詞

outen (comparative more outen, superlative most outen)

1. (chiefly dialectal) Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

   an outen man

派生語

• outener

語源 2

From out +‎ -en.

動詞

outen (三人称単数 現在形 outens, 現在分詞 outening, 過去形および過去分詞形 outened)

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
   • 2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017:

     I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.

   • 2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274:

     When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.

アナグラム

• toune