Where does “tôver” come from?

tôver (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch tōver, from Proto-West Germanic *taubr, from Proto-Germanic taubrą — magic, sorcery.

tôver (Middle Dutch): magic, sorcery, spell

Definitions

  1. magic, sorcery, spell

Ancestry of “tôver”, step by step

tôver traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Dutch tōver

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchtōver—
2Proto-West Germanic*taubr—
3Proto-Germanictaubrąmagic, sorcery

via Old Saxon *tōvar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxon*tōvar—

Words derived from “tôver”

Every word from Proto-Germanic taubrą →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *taubr →Every word from Old Dutch tōver →