'neath

介词 prep.
中文释义

英文释义

介词 prep.
  1. Alternative spelling of neath; beneath. alt-of,alternative,poetic
    — Have you ever been south of Monterey? / Barrancas carve the coastline / And the chaparral flows to the sea / ’Neath waves of golden sunshine

词源

From a misunderstanding of neath as an apheretic form of beneath, when it is in fact the older and original (or prefixless) form thereof.
See and compare 'til (from till, the origin of until) for a similar case, as well as fore (whence before).
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