Dovre

Dovre

2. A village and municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Oppland.

• Devor, Dover, Voder, drove, roved, vedro, vored

• IPA^(key): /²dovrə/, /²dɔvrə/
• Hyphenation: Dòv‧re

Originally a farm name; from Old Norse Dofrar f pl, from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Icelandic Dofrar.

Dovre ?

1. Dovre (a village and municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Oppland)
2. ellipsis of Dovrefjell (“the mountains of Dovre”)

   Samstelte og trugne til Dovre fell

   United and loyal until (the mountains of) Dovre crumble

• Dovrefjell (“Dovre Mountains”)
• (demonym): døvre, dovring

From Old Norse Dofri, related to Dofrar (“Dovre”).

Dovre m (definite Dovren)

1. (Norse mythology) name of a jotun said to have raised Harald Fairhair

Dovre

1. Dover (a town and port in modern Kent, in southeast England)