neoþan

From Proto-Germanic *niþanē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne͜o.θɑn/, [ˈne͜o.ðɑn]

neoþan

1. neath

• beneoþan, bineoþan
• wiþneoþan

• Middle English: nēthen
  • English: neath
  • Scots: neath, neth

neoþan

1. beneath
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday. On The Lord's Passion"

     Efne ðā tōbærst þæs temples wāhryft, fram ðǣre fyrste ufan ōð ðā flōr neoðan,...

     Lo then the temple's veil burst asunder, from the summit above down to the floor beneath,...

2. below
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Simon and Jude"

     ...mid ðǣre hē wæs ofset fram ðām hnolle ufan ōð his fōtwylmas neoðan.

     ...with which he was afflicted from the crown above to the soles of his feet below.

3. from below

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “neoþan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.