nether

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• Received-Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/
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• Canada, General-American: /nɛð.ɚ/
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• Australian: /neð.ə/
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• rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: N EH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

From nether (“lying beneath”).

Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ստորին (storin) — lower
• Bulgarian: долен (dolen) — lower
• Czech: dolní — lower
• Czech: dolejší — lower
• Czech: spodní — lower
• Dutch: neder — lower
• Esperanto: malalta — lower
• Finnish: ala- — lower
• Finnish: alempi — lower
• French: inférieur — lower
• German: nieder — lower
• Bavarian German: nida — lower
• Central Franconian: nedde — lower
• Hungarian: alsó — lower
• Hungarian: al- — lower
• Italian: inferiore — lower
• Japanese: 下の (shita no) — lower
• Luxembourgish: nidder — lower
• Polish: dolny — lower
• Portuguese: inferior — lower
• Romanian: sub — lower
• Russian: ни́жний (nížnij) — lower
• Spanish: inferior — lower
• Spanish: de abajo — lower
• Armenian: ստորերկյա (storerkya) — beneath the earth's surface
• Bulgarian: подземен (podzemen) — beneath the earth's surface
• Esperanto: subtera — beneath the earth's surface
• Finnish: maanalainen — beneath the earth's surface
• French: souterrain — beneath the earth's surface
• German: unterirdisch — beneath the earth's surface
• Bavarian German: nida — beneath the earth's surface
• Ancient Greek: χθόνιος (khthónios) — beneath the earth's surface
• Hungarian: föld alatti — beneath the earth's surface
• Hungarian: al- — beneath the earth's surface
• Italian: sotterraneo — beneath the earth's surface
• Luxembourgish: nidder — beneath the earth's surface
• Polish: podziemny — beneath the earth's surface
• Portuguese: subterrâneo — beneath the earth's surface
• Romanian: subteran — beneath the earth's surface
• Russian: подзе́мный (podzémnyj) — beneath the earth's surface
• Spanish: subterráneo — beneath the earth's surface