oferferan

ofer- +‎ fēran

• IPA^(key): /ˌo.ferˈfeː.rɑn/, [ˌo.verˈfeː.rɑn]

oferfēran

1. to pass through, pass over
2. to cross, traverse
   • Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     On þǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas; and þæt bȳne land is ēasteweard brādost, and symle swā norðor swā smælre. Ēastewerd hit mæġ bīon syxtiġ mīla brād, oþþe hwēne brǣdre; and middeweard þritiġ oððe brādre; and norðeweard, hē cwæð, þǣr hit smalost wǣre, þæt hit mihte bēon þrēora mīla brād tō þǣm mōre; and sē mōr syðþan, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on twām wucum oferferan; and, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on syx dagum oferferan.

     Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Beforan Moyse and hys folce, hē ðone Rēadan sǣ on twelf wegas ādrīġde; þæt hī, drīġan fōtan, þæne sǣ oferfērdon.

     Before Moses and His people, He dried up twelve paths in the Red Sea, so that they could cross the sea with dry feet.

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ofer-féran”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.