other
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
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)
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: synonyms: additional
another
glosses: See other (determiner) below.
examples: text: I get paid every other week.
synonyms: alternate
glosses: Second.
examples: text: In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.
ref: 2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6:
synonyms: foreign
glosses: Alien.
examples: text: it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.
ref: 2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on Political Science, volume 30, number 4, page 213:
synonyms: word: disparate
word: dissimilar
word: distinctive
word: distinguishable
word: diverse
word: different
word: differing
word: dissimilar
word: diverse
word: other
word: unalike
word: unlike
antonyms: same
qualifier: formal or puristic
glosses: Different.
examples: text: A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 351:
glosses: Left, as opposed to right.
Derived terms: all other things being equal
among other things
any other business
bat for the other side
bat for the other team
crawl over each other
deother
each other
every other
fictional other
give with one hand and take away with the other
go in at one ear and at out the other
go in one ear and out the other
have other fish to fry
have other ideas
how the other half lives
in other news
in other words
kick with the other foot
laugh on the other side of one's face
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
like no other
look the other way
made for each other
none other than
nonother
one after the other
one that goes the other way
one way or other
one way or the other
on the other bus
on the other hand
on the other paw
on the other side of
otherable
other backward class
otherdimensional
otherdom
other end
other end of the ball
other fishes in the sea
other fish in the sea
other half
other head
otherhearted
otherhood
otherish
otherkin
otherlandish
otherling
other lips
otherly
other man
othermother
otherness
other rank
other-sex
other-sexual
other side
other side of the coin
other side of the tracks
othersome
other some
other-space
other specified dissociative disorder
other then
other things being equal
other times
other virginity
otherward
otherwards
otherways
otherwhat
otherwhen
otherwhence
otherwhere
otherwhereas
otherwhile
other woman
Otherworld
other world
otherworld
other-worldliness
other-worldly
pull the other leg
pull the other one
put one foot in front of the other
put the shoe on the other foot
should see the other guy
significant other
somehow or other
somehow or the other
some something or other
some something or the other
something or other
something or the other
the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest
the boot is on the other foot
the grass is always greener on the other side
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
the other body
the other day
the other place
the other way
the other way around
the other way round
the other white meat
The Other Wiki
the shoe is on the other foot
think with one's other head
this and that and the other
turn the other cheek
turn the other way
wait for the other shoe to drop
wet the other eye
your other left
your other right