Etymograph

English

thereout

Thereout comes from Middle English ther-oute ‘outside’, and goes back to Old English þǣrūt.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150þǣrūt1
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ther-oute1‘outside’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590thereout1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English thereout
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Philip Sidney: “Claius presently went to a Fisherman, & having agreed…”.

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150þǣrūtWiktionary, English thereout
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ther-outeWiktionary, English thereout‘outside’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1590thereoutWiktionary, English thereout. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Philip Sidney: “Claius presently went to a Fisherman, & having agreed…”

A compound of there + out

Proto-Indo-European *tór ‘there’

Proto-Germanic *þar ‘at that place, there’

Proto-West Germanic *þār ‘there’

Old English þēr ‘there’

Middle English there

English there

Proto-Indo-European *úd ‘upwards, away’

Proto-Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Proto-West Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Old English ūt ‘out’

Middle English out

English out

Every English word from Old English þǣrūt

Today it means

adv Out of it, out from it.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “thereout”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Old English þǣrūt / thereout

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