övre

See also: oevre and oevré

Hungarian

Etymology

öv (“belt”) +‎ -re (“onto”, case suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈøvrɛ]
  • Hyphenation: öv‧re

Noun

övre

  1. sublative singular of öv

Swedish

Alternative forms
  • öfre (obsolete since 1906)

Etymology

From Old Norse øfri, efri.

Adjective

övre

  1. upper
    övre våningen
    upper floor
  2. northern
    övre Norrland
    northern Norrland

Usage notes
  • In geographic names like Övre Volta (“Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso”), upper means higher, upstream. But there is no such meaning in övre Norrland.
  • The word looks like a comparative form of över-övre-överst, but över is a preposition and not an adjective.

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