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”).

Preposition

yfir

1. (with dative, with accusative) above

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “yfir”): undir

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fara eins og logi yfir akur
• líða yfir
• sofa yfir sig
• yfirheiti
• yfirfyll
• yfirmaður
• yfirráð
• yfirvald

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Preposition

yfir

1. above

Descendants

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

References

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

Welsh

Verb

yfir

1. impersonal present/future of yfed