The story
- Middle English · inherited fromoutstanden
- English todayoutstand
From Middle English outstanden, utstanden, equivalent to out- + stand. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutstounde (“to bear, tolerate”), Dutch uitstaan (“to abide, suffer, dree”), German ausstehen (“to stand, endure, abide”), Swedish utstå (“to suffer, endure, pass through”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.