Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prep
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAbove.
Probably an apheretic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continue Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.
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