upp

up
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "THE NATIVITY OF ST. ANDREW THE APOSTLE"
  Crist ða beseah upp wið þæs rican...
  Christ then looked up towards the rich man...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE BLESSED MARTYR LAWRENCE"
  Arærað hine upp...
  Raise him up...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL"
  ...and he sylf wearð færlice upp on ðære lyfte gesewen.
  ...and he himself suddenly appeared up in the air.

Usage notes edit

This word is used to describe where something is going: sēo sunne gǣþ upp (“the sun goes up”). To describe where something is located, the word uppe is used instead: sēo sunne is uppe (“the sun is up”).

Antonyms edit

niþer

Descendants edit

Middle English: up, upp, ap
- English: up
- Scots: up
- Yola: ap, up

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *upp (“up”). Cognate with Old English upp, Old Frisian up, Old Saxon up, Old High German ūf, Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup).

Preposition edit

upp

up

Derived terms edit

uptaug

Descendants edit

Icelandic: upp
Faroese: upp
Norwegian Nynorsk: upp
Old Swedish: up
- Swedish: upp
Danish: op
- Norwegian Bokmål: opp
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: opp

References edit

“upp”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish edit

Alternative forms edit

opp (common in some Swedish dialects)

Etymology edit

From Old Norse upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɵp/, [ɵpː]
Audio (Gotland) (file)
Rhymes: -ɵp

Adverb edit

upp (not comparable)

up (away from earth’s centre)
Antonym: ner

Han klättrade upp för stegen, så nu är han uppe på taket
He climbed up the ladder, so now he's up on the roof

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

uppe (“up, as a location”)
uppå (“upon”)