Etymology

inlandish

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Today it means: Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native. Full definition →

Middle English inlendisc ← Old English inlendisċ
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  1. Old English · inherited frominlendisċ
  2. Middle English · inherited frominlendisc“native, indigenous”
  3. English todayinlandish

In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).

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