övre
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
öv (“belt”) + -re (“onto”, case suffix)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
övre
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
- öfre (obsolete since 1906)
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
övre
Usage notes edit
- In geographic names like Övre Volta (“Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso”), upper means higher, upstream. But there is no such meaning in övre Norrland.
- The word looks like a comparative form of över-övre-överst, but över is a preposition and not an adjective.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- övre in Svensk ordbok.