yfir

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse yfir, from Proto-Germanic *ubiri, from Proto-Indo-European *upéri, from *upér, from *upo. Related to of (“too”) and ofan (“from above”).

Preposition edit

yfir

(with dative, with accusative) above

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of “yfir”): undir

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *ubiri, from Proto-Indo-European *upéri, from *upér, from *upo.

Preposition edit

yfir

above

Descendants edit

Icelandic: yfir
Faroese: yvir
Norwegian: over
Danish: over
Old Swedish: yvir, ivir, over
- Swedish: över; öv (dialectal)
Gutnish: yfvar, yfver
Dalian: yvyr

References edit

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

Welsh edit

Verb edit

yfir

impersonal present/future of yfed

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