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.

See also

• över
• överst

Further reading

• övre in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• över, över-