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UNDERNS
Definition of UNDERNS
Wiktionary has no entry for UNDERNS itself. This is its base word, UNDERN.
noun
Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for UNDERN.
From Middle English undern, ondern, from Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥ter, *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,895)
How it is built
Same root, UNDERN · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNDERNS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNDERNS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENNRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start UNDERN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UNDERNS?
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