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'neath

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Preposition
  1. 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"

Etymology

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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