Nether

Etymology
From nether:, nethere:, nithere:, from  nithera:, from niþer:, adverb nithor:; akin to Old Saxon adjective nithiri:, adverb nithar:, Old High German adjective nidari:, nidaro:, adverb nidar:, Old Norse adjective neðri:, neðarri:, adverb niðr:; all from a  word that is a comparative of a word akin to Sanskrit नि:; akin to Old English in:.

Adjective

 * 1) Lower; under.
 * The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
 * 1) Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
 * The nether regions.
 * 1) * 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page187:
 * When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,

Synonyms

 * bottom, lower
 * subsurface, subterranean

Derived terms

 * nether region
 * nethermore


 * nethermost
 * netherworld

Translations

 * Armenian: ստորին
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ala-, alempi
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:下の (したの, shitano)
 * Polish: dolny
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: нижний
 * Spanish:, de abajo


 * Armenian: ստորերկյա
 * Finnish: maanalainen
 * French:
 * German: unterirdisch
 * Italian:


 * Polish: podziemny
 * Portuguese: subterrâneo
 * Russian: подземный
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * threne

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