outa
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
outa (plural outas)
- (South Africa) An old black man.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 133:
- As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?”
- 2001, South African Theatre Journal, volume 15, page 48:
- Secondly, there is an old black man, the Outa, who stumbles in from the dark to die beside their fire.
- 2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, page 275:
- The reference is to a cheerful little ditty, in which an old black man, an ‘outa’, takes the long road to Mebosspruit, playing his tin guitar along the way.
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant forms.
Preposition[edit]
outa
- Alternative spelling of outta
- 1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, page 101:
- […] and lo! here’s all humanity hep and weird wandering on the evening sidewalk amazing me outa my eyeballs […]
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Said to be a blend of Afrikaans oud (“old”) and Sotho ntate (“father”).
Noun[edit]
outa (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- D. C. Hauptfleisch. 1993. "Racist language in society and in dictionaries: A pragmatic perspective". Lexikos[1]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sami, compare Northern Sami vuovdi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
outa (dialectal)
- (Peräpohjola dialects) forest
Declension[edit]
Inflection of outa (Kotus type 10*F/koira, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | outa | oudat | ||
genitive | oudan | outien | ||
partitive | outaa | outia | ||
illative | outaan | outiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | outa | oudat | ||
accusative | nom. | outa | oudat | |
gen. | oudan | |||
genitive | oudan | outien outainrare | ||
partitive | outaa | outia | ||
inessive | oudassa | oudissa | ||
elative | oudasta | oudista | ||
illative | outaan | outiin | ||
adessive | oudalla | oudilla | ||
ablative | oudalta | oudilta | ||
allative | oudalle | oudille | ||
essive | outana | outina | ||
translative | oudaksi | oudiksi | ||
abessive | oudatta | ouditta | ||
instructive | — | oudin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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