Etymology

outthink

O1U1T1T1H4I1N1K5

Today it means: To best an opponent by thinking. Full definition →

English think ← Middle English thinken ← Old English þenċan
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

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*teng-
  8. Proto-Germanic*þankijaną
  9. Proto-West Germanic*þankijan
  10. Old Englishþenċan
  11. Middle Englishthinken
  12. Englishthink
  13. English todayoutthink

From out- + think.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.