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Some one had made a literal translation, writing generally the English word under the Dutch, so that the grammatical differences between the two tongues made even the reading of the translation a difficult matter.

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  1. preposition In a lower position or place than: a rug under a chair.
  2. preposition To or into a lower position or place than: rolled the ball under the couch.
  3. preposition Beneath the surface of: under the ground; swam under water.
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  • His first collection of short stories was published in Hebrew under the title Sometimes It's Different and as of this writing he has several works on the semifinal ballot for Israel's Gefen award. —  FSFDec2003
  • ISBN 0-15-155137-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-182331 Printed in the United States of America Originally published in French under the title Maigret Tend un Piège Maigret Sets a Trap 1 Commotion at the Quai des Orfèvres From half past three on, Maigret raised his head every now and then to look at the time. —  Maigret Sets a Trap—Simenon, Georges - 76
  • First American edition Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-78874 Printed in the United States of America Originally published in French under the title Maigret Chez le Ministre Chapter 1 Every evening when he came home Maigret stopped at the same spot on the sidewalk, just after the gas lamp, and raised his eyes to the lighted windows of his apartment. —  Maigret and the Calame Report - Georges Simenon - 74
  • Before Salmasius' reply was ready, there was launched from the Hague, in March, 1652, a virulent royalist piece in Latin, under the title of Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum (Cry of the King's blood to Heaven against the English parricides). —  Milton
  • This under is about as low as it can go where people will actually still bet the under. —  The Online Sports Bettor
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see n̥dher- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English under, undur, undir, undyr, onder, from Anglo-Saxon under = Old Saxon undar = OFries. under, onder = Dutch onder = Middle Low German under, Low German under, unner = Old High German untar, under, Middle High German G. unter, under, among, = Icelandic undir = Swedish Danish under = Gothic (Moesogothic) undar, under; perhaps akin to L. infra, below, inferus, lower (see infra-, inferior), = Sanskrit adhara, lower, adhas, below; less prob. connected to L. inter, between, among, = Oscan anter, under, within.
  2. from under, adv. See note at under, adv.
 

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