outen

Meaning

Prep

Out; out of; out from.

Adj

Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

Verb

To put out; extinguish.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈaʊtən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: outen

Inherited from Old English: ūtan

Cognate with Middle Low German: ûten

Cognate with German: außen

Cognate with Swedish: utan

In summary

From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”).
Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.