obar

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber.

Preposition

obar

  1. above
  • oba (preposition)

Descendants

  • Middle High German: ober, over, uber

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

obar m inan

  1. (Far Masovian) splinter of wood covered in resin used as a torch

Further reading

  • Antoni Waga (1860) “obar”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 755
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