English

under

/ˈʌndə/
Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.

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    Origin

    From Middle English under, from Old English under, from Proto-West Germanic *undar, from Proto-Germanic *under, from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér (“under”) and *h₁entér (“inside”).

    Cognate with German unter, Dutch onder, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish under, Faroese and Icelandic undir; also Old High German untar (“under”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar, “within”), Latin infrā (“below, beneath”) and inter (“between, among”).

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    • inheritedMiddle Englishunder
      • inheritedOld Englishunder “under”
        • inheritedProto-West Germanic*undar
          • inheritedProto-Germanic*under “under”
            • inheritedProto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér “under”
              • partProto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
              • partProto-Indo-European*-er

    Related: German unter, Dutch onder, da,nb,nn,sv under, fo,is undir, Old High German untar, Sanskrit अन्तर्, Latin infrā

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