Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by. · Below the surface of. · From one side of to the other, passing beneath. · Less than.
The amount by which an actual total is less than the expected or required amount. · Something having a particular property that is low or too low. · A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such as points scored in a game, will be below a certain stated value.
Lower; beneath something. · In a state of subordination, submission or defeat. · Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated. · Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively. · So as to pass beneath something. · Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient. · In or into an unconscious state.
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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