nether

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Lower; under.
2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

Adv

1. Down; downward.
2. Low; low down.

Verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
4. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
5. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

Noun

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
2. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Conceptos

inferior

bajo

subterráneo

de abajo

Sinónimos

under

lower

inferior

down

low

chthonian

subaltern

chthonic

downwards

adown

below

downbound

beneath

down below

downstairs

infra

junior

subjacent

underlying

to the bottom

Traducciones

inférieur

κάτω

cehennem

unter

κατώτερος

bas

inferiore

inferior

subterrâneo

alt

inferior

souterrain

أسفل

sotterraneo

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/nɛð.ə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: nether

Heredado de inglés antiguo: niþera

Cognado con neerlandés: neder

Cognado con alemán: nieder

Cognado con luxemburgués: nidder

Cognado con danés: -

Cognado con noruego: -

Cognado con sueco: ned

Cognado con sueco: nedre

Cognado con feroés: -

Cognado con islandés: niður

Heredado de inglés medio: nitheren

Heredado de inglés antiguo: niþerian

In summary

From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.