other
Part of speech: adj
noun
det
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros
Proto-Germanic *anþeraz
Proto-West Germanic *anþar
Old English ōþer
Middle English other
English other
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.
Inflected forms:
form: others
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: others
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: othering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: othered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: othered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: See other (determiner) below.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Second.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I get paid every other week.
gloss: Alien.
pos: adj
tags: formal
not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Different.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Left, as opposed to right.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
pos: noun
examples: I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
Show me one other.
gloss: The other one; the second of two.
pos: noun
examples: One boat is not better than the other.
Why not tell one or other of your parents?
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
gloss: Not the one or ones previously referred to.
pos: det
examples: Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
“By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
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").
[…] 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.
Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
“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.
gloss: To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Antonyms: same
Derived words: 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
others
otherer
othering
otherization
otherize
unothered
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