Etymology

outskirt

out·skirt
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Today it means: A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb. Full definition →

English skirt ← Middle English skyrte ← Old Norse skyrta
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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-Germanic*skurtijǭ
  8. Old Norseskyrta
  9. Middle Englishskyrte
  10. Englishskirt
  11. English todayoutskirt

From out- + skirt.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.