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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ̯və/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈəʊ̯.və]
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈoʊ̯vəɹ/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈoʊ.vɚ]
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• Australian: /ˈəʉvə/
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• Australian: [ˈɐʉ̯.vɐ]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɐʉ̯və/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈɐʉ̯.vɐ]
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• Scotland: [ˈo̝.vər]
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• India: [ˈoː.bɦə(ɾ)]
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- From Middle English over-, from Old English ofer-, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér. Cognate with Dutch over-, German über-, Swedish över-, Welsh gor-, Spanish sobre-, Armenian վեր- (ver-), Persian ابر (abar-). Doublet of super-, sur-, and hyper-. More at over.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: վեր- (ver-) — above or higher
• Armenian: վերա- (vera-) — above or higher
• Azerbaijani: ifrat- — above or higher
• Catalan: sobre- — above or higher
• Chinese Mandarin: 過度 /过度 (guòdù) — above or higher
• Czech: přes- — above or higher
• Czech: pře- — above or higher
• French: sur- — above or higher
• Georgian: ზე- (ze-) — above or higher
• German: über- — above or higher
• Hungarian: felül- — above or higher
• Italian: sopra- — above or higher
• Latin: super- — above or higher
• Polish: prze- — above or higher
• Portuguese: sobre- — above or higher
• Portuguese: super- — above or higher
• Russian: пере- (pere-) — above or higher
• Russian: сверх- (sverx-) — above or higher
• Scots: ower- — above or higher
• Scottish Gaelic: tar- — above or higher
• Spanish: super- — above or higher
• Spanish: sobre- — above or higher
• Swedish: compounds with över — above or higher
• Yiddish: איבער־ (iber-) — above or higher
• Azerbaijani: ifrat- — superior
• Czech: přes- — superior
• Georgian: ზე- (ze-) — superior
• Polish: nad- — superior
• Polish: ponad- — superior
• Portuguese: sobre- — superior
• Portuguese: super- — superior
• Russian: пере- (pere-) — superior
• Russian: сверх- (sverx-) — superior
• Scots: ower- — superior
• Swedish: compounds with över — superior
• Azerbaijani: ifrat- — excessively
• Catalan: excés — excessively
• Catalan: sobre- — excessively
• Czech: přes- — excessively
• French: excès — excessively
• French: sur- — excessively
• Galician: sobre- — excessively
• Galician: super- — excessively
• Hungarian: túl- — excessively
• Hungarian: agyon- — excessively
• Italian: eccesso — excessively
• Italian: sopra- — excessively
• Latin: nimius — excessively
• Polish: nad- — excessively
• Polish: ponad- — excessively
• Portuguese: sobre- — excessively
• Portuguese: super- — excessively
• Portuguese: excesso — excessively
• Russian: пере- (pere-) — excessively
• Russian: сверх- (sverx-) — excessively
• Scots: ower- — excessively
• Scottish Gaelic: tar- — excessively
• Spanish: super- — excessively
• Spanish: sobre- — excessively
• Spanish: exceso de — excessively
• Spanish: hiper- — excessively
• Spanish: demasiado — excessively
• Spanish: excesivamente — excessively
• Spanish: demasiadamente — excessively
• Swedish: compounds with över — excessively