other
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭth′ər
ipa: /ˈʌðə/
ipa: /ʊðə/
ipa: /ˈʌðəɹ/
ipa: /ˈʌðɚ/
ipa: /ˈɐðə/
ipa: /ˈʊðəɹ/
ipa: /ˈʌðəɹ/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈʌðəɹ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈɔd̪əɹ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈʊɾəɹ]
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
homophone: udder (th-stopping)
Forms: form: others
form: othering
form: othered
form: othered
Etymology: From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).
Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian ouder, öler, üđer, Saterland Frisian uur, West Frisian oar), Old Saxon ōthar, ("other"; > Low German anner), Old Dutch āthar, ("other"; > Afrikaans ander, Dutch ander), Old High German andar, ("other"; > Cimbrian andar, German ander, anderer, Luxembourgish aner, Mòcheno ònder, Yiddish אַנדער (ander)), Old Norse annarr, ("other"; > Danish anden, Faroese annar, Icelandic annar, Jamtish æðnen, ænnen, Norwegian Bokmål annen, Norwegian Nynorsk annan, Swedish annan), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, “second”), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”).
French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates. A true cognate would be Latin anterior.
Senses: examples: text: "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
ref: 2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight:
text: That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").
ref: 2006, Angela Pattatucci Aragon, Challenging lesbian norms:
text: […] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
ref: 2008, John F. Borland, The under-representation of Black females in NCAA Division I women's basketball head coaching positions, University of Connecticut:
text: Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
ref: 2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I, Encyclopedia of Identity:
text: “You’re coming here and you’re expecting that everybody’s Black, so I’m going to be OK,” Ms. Davis said. “But then you get here and then you’re being ‘othered’” — viewed as different and separate.
ref: 2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
examples: text: In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
ref: 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms
glosses: To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
Derived terms: otherer
othering
otherization
otherize
unothered