underset

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To set under or beneath.
2. To prop or support.

Noun

undercurrent (of water)

Conceptes

rerafons

Sinònims

undertow

ocean undercurrent

Traduccions

Unterströmung

Unterton

connotation

ressac

courant de fond

courant sous-marin

connotazione

ondersteunen

fons

hons

corriente submarina

voz baja

donuk renk

alçak ses

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: undersetten

Heretat de anglès antic: undersettan

Cognat amb neerlandès: ondersetten

Cognat amb alemany: untersetzen

In summary

From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).