{"era":"current","word":"underlie","meaning":"To lie beneath something; to be the basis of something.","children":[{"era":"1300s","word":"underlie","meaning":"to lie beneath","children":[{"era":"pre-1100","word":"underlicgan","meaning":"to lie beneath","children":[{"era":"pre-1100","word":"under","meaning":"beneath","children":[],"language":"Old English"},{"era":"pre-1100","word":"licgan","meaning":"to lie, recline","children":[],"language":"Old English"}],"language":"Old English"}],"language":"Middle English"}],"language":"Modern English"}