yfir

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Contents

1 Icelandic
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Preposition
  - 1.2.1 Antonyms
  - 1.2.2 Derived terms
2 Old Norse
3 Welsh
- 3.1 Verb

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]

(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]

Faroese: yvir
Icelandic: yfir
Swedish: över
Norwegian: over (Bokmål), over (Nynorsk)

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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