Etymograph

English

inlandish

Inlandish may come from Middle English inlendisc ‘native, indigenous’.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inlendisc‘native, indigenous’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1657inlandish

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inlendisc‘native, indigenous’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1657inlandish

Earliest quotation: 1657, Thomas Reeve: “Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces…”

Formed from inland + -ish

Old English inland

Middle English inland

English inland

The story

In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (‘native, indigenous’), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (‘foreign, extravagant’).

Every English word from Middle English inlendisc

Today it means

adj Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.

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

Etymograph / Middle English inlendisc / inlandish

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