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

Noun

1. Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
2. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Sinónimos

under

lower

inferior

down

low

chthonian

subaltern

chthonic

downwards

adown

below

downbound

beneath

down below

downstairs

infra

junior

subjacent

underlying

to the bottom

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/nɛð.ə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: nether

Herdado de Old English: niþera

Relativo a neerlandés: neder

Relativo a alemán: nieder

Relativo a luxemburgués: nidder

Relativo a dinamarqués: -

Relativo a noruegués: -

Relativo a sueco: ned

Relativo a sueco: nedre

Relativo a feroés: -

Relativo a islandés: niður

Herdado de Middle English: nitheren

Herdado de Old English: 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.