yfir

Icelandic

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪːvɪr̥/

Preposition

yfir

  1. above [with dative or accusative]

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “yfir”): undir

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Preposition

yfir

  1. over (moving across, going across) [with dative or accusative]
  2. over, above (positioned above)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: yfir
  • Faroese: yvir
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: yver, yvi; ivi, øve (dialectal)
  • Old Danish: ofær
    • Danish: over
      • Norwegian Bokmål: over
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: over
  • Old Swedish: yvir, ivir, over
  • Gutnish: yfvar, yfver
  • Dalian: yvyr

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “yfir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Welsh

Verb

yfir

  1. impersonal present/future of yfed
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.