Etymology

outscore

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Today it means: To score more than. Full definition →

English score ← Middle English score ← Old English scoru
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  8. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  9. Old Norseskor
  10. Old Englishscoru
  11. Middle Englishscore
  12. Englishscore
  13. English todayoutscore

From out- + score.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.