The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*ūtdraganą
- Old English · inherited fromūtdragan
- Middle English · inherited fromoutdrauen
- English todayoutdraw
From Middle English outdrauen, outdrawen, from Old English ūtdragan, from Proto-Germanic *ūtdraganą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutdreege, West Frisian útdrage (“to carry out”), Dutch uitdragen (“to carry out”), German austragen (“to deal with; deliver”), Icelandic útdraga (“to extract; draw out”). By surface analysis, out- + draw.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.