övre
See also: oevre and oevré
Hungarian
Etymology
öv (“belt”) + -re (“onto”, case suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈøvrɛ]
- Hyphenation: öv‧re
Noun
övre
- sublative singular of öv
Swedish
Alternative forms
- öfre (obsolete since 1906)
Etymology
From Old Norse øfri, efri.
Adjective
övre
- upper
- övre våningen
- upper floor
- övre våningen
- northern
- övre Norrland
- northern Norrland
- övre 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.
See also
- över
- överst
Further reading
- övre in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
- över, över-