different between eachother vs other

English

Etymology

From Middle English ech other, yche othere, ich othir, eche other, ilk oþer, from Old English ?l? ?þer (“each other”), equivalent to each +? other. More at each other.

Pronoun

eachother

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of each other
   • 1826, G. H. C. Egestorff (translator), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (author), Klopstock's Messiah (Der Messias), canto XIV, lines 94–6, page 427:

     The pilgrims to the heavenly Salem, who / By nature for eachother were design’d, / In this life oft are near, yet do not meet.

   • 1921 April, Charles Johnston, "Tao-Teh-King: An Interpretation of Lao Tse's Book of the Way and of Righteousness", part I (of VIII), in The Theosophical Quarterly, volume XVIII, The Theosophical Society, page 347:

     Lao Tse is seeking to make clear the relation of the unmanifested and the manifested Logos to eachother, as poles of the same Being.

   • 2006, Karunkar Nair, Pebbles in the Sand, Lulu.com, ?ISBN, page 44:

     Our last night together! […] How are we going to cope with the absence of eachother?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?th??r
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ð?(?)/, [??ð?(?)]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?ð?/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??ð?/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??ð?/, [?äð?]
• Hyphenation: oth?er
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Etymology

From Middle English other, from Old English ?þer (“other, second”), from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“other”). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ?ther, ("other"; > North Frisian ü?er, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ?thar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, øðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic ???????????????????? (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “different”), Sanskrit ???? (anyá, “other, different”).

Adjective

other (not comparable)

1. See other (determiner) below.

   Synonyms: additional, another

2. Second.

   Synonym: alternate

3. Alien.

   Synonym: foreign
4. Different.

   Synonyms: disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse; see also Thesaurus:different

   Antonym: same
5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.

Derived terms

• otherdom
• otherhood
• otherish
• otherling
• otherly
• otherness
• other rank
• other side

Translations

Noun

other (plural others)

1. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

2. The other one; the second of two.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     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.

Derived terms

• others

Translations

Determiner

other

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:other.

Antonyms

• same

Derived terms

• this, that, and the other

Translations

Adverb

other (not comparable)

1. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".

2. (obsolete) Otherwise.

Related terms

• another
• otherwise

Translations

Verb

other (third-person singular simple present others, present participle othering, simple past and past participle othered)

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
   • 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms:

     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.

Derived terms

• otherer
• othering
• otherize
• otherization

Anagrams

• Rothe, heort-, hetro, rothe, thero-, threo-, throe

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?þer. Compare German oder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oð?r/, /?o?ð?r/

Conjunction

other

1. or; synonym of or

Determiner

other

1. other

Descendants

• English: other
• Yola: ooree, oree

References

• “???ther, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?r (Old West Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros. Cognates include Old English ?þer, Old Saxon ?thar and Old Dutch andar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ðer/

Adjective

?ther

1. other
2. second

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: öler

  Hallig: öör

  Helgoland: uur

  Mooring: ouder

  Sylt: ü?er

• Saterland Frisian: uur, our
• West Frisian: oar

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN