nether

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

inferior

subterrâneo

mais baixo

Sinônimos

under

lower

inferior

down

low

chthonian

subaltern

chthonic

downwards

adown

below

downbound

beneath

down below

downstairs

infra

junior

subjacent

underlying

to the bottom

Traduções

inférieur

inferior

κάτω

bajo

alt

inferiore

cehennem

κατώτερος

unter

bas

subterráneo

de abajo

souterrain

baix

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/nɛð.ə/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: nether

Herdado de inglês arcaico: niþera

Cognato com holandês: neder

Cognato com alemão: nieder

Cognato com luxemburguês: nidder

Cognato com dinamarquês: -

Cognato com norueguês: -

Cognato com sueco: ned

Cognato com sueco: nedre

Cognato com feroês: -

Cognato com islandês: niður

Herdado de inglês médio: nitheren

Herdado de inglês arcaico: 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.