The story
- Old English · inherited frominlendisċ
- Middle English · inherited frominlendisc“native, indigenous”
- 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.