Utmost

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Old English ūt(e)mest ‘outermost’ (see out, -most).


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From Middle English utmest, utemest[and other forms], from Old English ūtmest, ūtemest[and other forms], from ūt, ūte(“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest( suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). Ūt is derived from Proto-Germanic *ūt(“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd(“out, outward”). [1]


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utmost (adj.)

Old English utmest (Anglian) "outermost," double superlative of ut "out" (see out (adv.)) + -most. Meaning "being of the greatest or highest degree" is from early 14c.