Etymology

outstate

O1U1T1S1T1A1T1E1

Today it means: Of the part of a state of the United States that is away from major metropolitan areas. Full definition →

English state ← Middle English stat ← Old French estat
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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*steh₂-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
  9. Proto-Italic*status
  10. Latinstatu
  11. Old Frenchestat
  12. Middle Englishstat
  13. Englishstate
  14. English todayoutstate

From out- + state.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.