etymology - Does neath have any standalone meaning? - English . . . Neath or 'neath does have a standalone meaning, but as you will see here, it simply means beneath It appears in poetry usually, I suspect, when beneath or underneath would add too many syllables to the line
Confusion about a stanza from Rudyard Kipling And Love to all men 'neath the sun! And love everyone on earth As Alex pointed out, "'neath the sun" is borrowed from Ecclesiastes It's a motif that appears many times throughout the book A close reading shows that the phrase refers to the mundane, prosaic, aspects of life that people tend to view as unimportant
Difference between under, underneath, below and beneath In terms of these two senses, is there any subtle difference between these four prepositions? Or one is most formal informal than the rest And what about their spelling pattern: If under is to under neath, but why below is to be neath, rather than below neath?
gerunds - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Is there a single-word noun for an overwhelming feeling that uses overwhelm as its root? My first thought was to make a gerund, that is, overwhelming Although overwhelming is normally used as an
prepositions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I ask for the difference in a sense of active quality rather than a stative quality of the verbs E g in "the toy is sitting underneath under table", the verb is stative So we are dealing with a
A word for people who work under a manager Where I used to work, we called the people who reported to a manager his her reports This word does not have any of the negative connotations words like subordinates or underlings carry Oxford Dictionaries Online lists this as the meaning of the word and also gives an example Report noun An employee who reports to another employee 'And, I have been a better, more consistent mentor teacher
Compound preposition - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Words like be+neath and with+in should comfortably fit into this definition After all the word preposition per-se is a compound of pre+position And by the way what about compound adverbs such as whenever, hereafter, or compound pronouns like whoever, whatever and so on?
Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention? Here's the first part of the chorus: You'll hear me call-ing YOO-HOO, 'Neath your win-dow some sweet day You'll hear me call-ing YOO-HOO, And you'll know I'm home to stay, So with that context, yoo-hoo as an exclamation could have appeared in the 19th century and been current as a way to get attention in the 1910s