underset

Verb

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

Noun

undercurrent (of water)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: undersetten

Inherited from Old English: undersettan

Cognate with Dutch: ondersetten

Cognate with German: 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”).

Synonyms

undertow

ocean undercurrent

Translations

rerafons

Unterströmung

Unterton

connotation

ressac

courant de fond

courant sous-marin

connotazione

ondersteunen

fons

hons

konotacja

corriente submarina

voz baja

donuk renk