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  • prefix above, or higher
  • prefix superior
  • prefix excessively

Etymologies

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From Middle English over-, from Old English ofer- ("over-"), from Proto-Germanic *ubar- (“over-”). Cognate with Dutch over-, German über-, Danish over-, Swedish över-. More at over.

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