Where does “overse” come from?
overse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
overse (Norwegian Bokmål): to overlook not see, forgive, forget, ignore
Definitions
- to overlook not see, forgive, forget, ignore
Ancestry of “overse”, step by step
overse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål se
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 2 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 3 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 6 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 7 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 8 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 9 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 10 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 11 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 12 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 13 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
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- | — |