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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.
Variant forms.
outa
- Alternative spelling of outta
Said to be a blend of Afrikaans oud (“old”) and Sotho ntate (“father”).
outa (uncountable)
- D. C. Hauptfleisch. 1993. "Racist language in society and in dictionaries: A pragmatic perspective". Lexikos[1]
From Sami, compare Northern Sami vuovdi.
outa (dialectal)
- (Peräpohjola dialects) forest
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 outain rare | |
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. |