"oferstigan" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "oferstīgendlīċ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*uberstīganą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *uberstīganą",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "obarstīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German obarstīgan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "yfirstíga"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse yfirstíga",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ufarsteigan)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ofer-",
        "3": "stīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "ofer- + stīgan",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *uberstīganą. Cognate with Old High German obarstīgan, Old Norse yfirstíga, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ufarsteigan). Equivalent to ofer- + stīgan, literally \"to climb over or across.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oferstīgan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "1",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāg",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstige",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāg",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstigon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstige",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstigen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstiġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "oferstīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "oferstīgan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "oferstīgan<s1>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The nature of oil is that it will rise to the top of any liquid.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Holy Virgins\"\nEles ġecynd is þæt hē wile oferstīgan ǣlcne wǣtan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then Cataline took three hundred men with him and ascended the mountain at a secret place.",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans\nÞā ġenam Catalīnus þrēo hund manna mid him and on ānre dēagolre stōwe þone munt oferstāg.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Some of the waves the steersman avoids with the ship, some he climbs over.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care\nSume þā ȳðe beċiereþ sē stēora mid þȳ sċipe, sume hē oferstīġþ.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "climb over: surmount, rise above"
      ],
      "id": "en-oferstigan-ang-verb-F91cEOW3",
      "links": [
        [
          "climb",
          "climb"
        ],
        [
          "over",
          "over"
        ],
        [
          "surmount",
          "surmount"
        ],
        [
          "rise",
          "rise"
        ],
        [
          "above",
          "above"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go past, cross"
      ],
      "id": "en-oferstigan-ang-verb-XtUnXOax",
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ],
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ],
        [
          "cross",
          "cross"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 14 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 16 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English terms prefixed with ofer-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The Lord chose fishermen and uneducated people to be his disciples and taught them so that their learning surpassed all secular knowledge.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, \"The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle\"\nFisċeras and unġetogene menn ġeċēas Dryhten him tō leornungcneohtum and hīe swā ġetēah þæt heora lār oferstāg ealne weoroldwīsdōm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost\"\nOn ðisum andweardan life sind þa gecorenan feawa geðuhte onġēan getel þæra wiðercorenra, ac þonne hí to ðam ecan life gegaderode beoð, heora tel bið swa menigfeald, þæt hit oferstīhð, be ðæs witegan cwyde, sand-ceosles gerím.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(by extension) to be more or better: surpass, transcend, exceed"
      ],
      "id": "en-oferstigan-ang-verb-wpzJSj~A",
      "links": [
        [
          "more",
          "more"
        ],
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ],
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "transcend",
          "transcend"
        ],
        [
          "exceed",
          "exceed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) (by extension) to be more or better: surpass, transcend, exceed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌo.ferˈstiː.ɡɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌo.verˈstiː.ɣɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ofersteppan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oferstigan"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old English class 1 strong verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms prefixed with ofer-",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "oferstīgendlīċ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*uberstīganą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *uberstīganą",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "obarstīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German obarstīgan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "yfirstíga"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse yfirstíga",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ufarsteigan)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ofer-",
        "3": "stīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "ofer- + stīgan",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *uberstīganą. Cognate with Old High German obarstīgan, Old Norse yfirstíga, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ufarsteigan). Equivalent to ofer- + stīgan, literally \"to climb over or across.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oferstīgan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "1",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāg",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstige",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāg",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstāh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstigon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstige",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstigen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīġ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstīgende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oferstiġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "oferstīgan"
      },
      "expansion": "oferstīgan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "oferstīgan<s1>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The nature of oil is that it will rise to the top of any liquid.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of the Holy Virgins\"\nEles ġecynd is þæt hē wile oferstīgan ǣlcne wǣtan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then Cataline took three hundred men with him and ascended the mountain at a secret place.",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans\nÞā ġenam Catalīnus þrēo hund manna mid him and on ānre dēagolre stōwe þone munt oferstāg.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Some of the waves the steersman avoids with the ship, some he climbs over.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care\nSume þā ȳðe beċiereþ sē stēora mid þȳ sċipe, sume hē oferstīġþ.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "climb over: surmount, rise above"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climb",
          "climb"
        ],
        [
          "over",
          "over"
        ],
        [
          "surmount",
          "surmount"
        ],
        [
          "rise",
          "rise"
        ],
        [
          "above",
          "above"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go past, cross"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ],
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ],
        [
          "cross",
          "cross"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The Lord chose fishermen and uneducated people to be his disciples and taught them so that their learning surpassed all secular knowledge.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, \"The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle\"\nFisċeras and unġetogene menn ġeċēas Dryhten him tō leornungcneohtum and hīe swā ġetēah þæt heora lār oferstāg ealne weoroldwīsdōm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost\"\nOn ðisum andweardan life sind þa gecorenan feawa geðuhte onġēan getel þæra wiðercorenra, ac þonne hí to ðam ecan life gegaderode beoð, heora tel bið swa menigfeald, þæt hit oferstīhð, be ðæs witegan cwyde, sand-ceosles gerím.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(by extension) to be more or better: surpass, transcend, exceed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "more",
          "more"
        ],
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ],
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "transcend",
          "transcend"
        ],
        [
          "exceed",
          "exceed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) (by extension) to be more or better: surpass, transcend, exceed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌo.ferˈstiː.ɡɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌo.verˈstiː.ɣɑn]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ofersteppan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oferstigan"
}