Where does “overprøve” come from?
overprøve (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål prøve, from Old Norse prófa, from Middle Low German prôven, from Old French prover, from Latin probāre, from Latin probō, from Latin Probus, from Proto-Indo-European pro-bhwo- — passed , crossed.
overprøve (Norwegian Bokmål): to overrule
Definitions
- to overrule
Ancestry of “overprøve”, step by step
overprøve traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål prøve
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | prøve | test; sample; to try |
| 2 | Old Norse | prófa | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | prôven | — |
| 4 | Old French | prover | to prove |
| 5 | Latin | probāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | probō | to approve, permit, commend |
| 7 | Latin | Probus | good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pro-bhwo- | being in front, prominent |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Norwegian Bokmål over
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | over | above; past; over; more than |
| 2 | Old Norse | yfir | above |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | ubiri | over; over, above |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |