aboven
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English abūfan, onbufan; equivalent to a- + boven.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]aboven
- above
- 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis[1]:
- Division, the gospell seith, On hous upon another leith, Til that the Regne al overthrowe: And thus may every man wel knowe, 970 Division aboven alle Is thing which makth the world to falle, And evere hath do sith it began.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- English: above, aboon
- ⇒? English: bove
- Scots: abuin, abune, abane, abeen, abine, abin, abeun, abön (Northern Isles), aboon (literary)
- Yola: aboo
References
[edit]- “abǒve(n, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.