Etymograph

English

Outer Mongolia

From outer (“exterior, seen from China proper”) + Mongolia.

A compound of outer ‘exterior, seen from China proper’ + Mongolia

Old English ūtre

Middle English outre

English outer

Today it means

name Synonym of Mongolia, (country); viewed as a region south of Siberia, west of Manchuria and north of Inner Mongolia (with closely related native Mongolian population), well north of the Great Wall, which never became an integral part of the Chinese empire, and later achieved autonomy and full independence from China, as the republic of Mongolia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Outer Mongolia