beneath
‘in a lower place; below’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. beniþan, bineðe, byneithe, bineth < M.E. binethe < O.E. beneoðan ‘under, below, in a lower place, further down than’ < be- ‘by’ + neoðan ‘below, down, from below’ < Proto-G. niþar ‘lower, farther down, down’ < nitheraz < nee < ni- < Tamil il