nether的词源

英文词源

nether: nether: see beneath
nether (adj.): Old English niþera, neoþera "down, downwards, below, beneath," from Proto-Germanic *nitheraz (cognates: Old Saxon nithar, Old Norse niðr, Old Frisian nither, Dutch neder, German nieder), from comparative of PIE *ni- "down, below" (cognates: Sanskrit ni "down," nitaram "downward," Greek neiothen "from below," Old Church Slavonic nizŭ "low, down"). Has been replaced in most senses by lower (adj.).

来自PIE*ni,向下，在下，词源同beneath,under,-ther,比较级后缀，词源同whether,other.

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