darüber German · revision 34983

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=late 9th century, Georgslied}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /daˈʁyːbɐ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''darüber'''^(Wiktionary)

+ The contracted form ''drüber'' is found from the 13th century and was most frequent in the 16th to 18th centuries.^(DWB2|6, 338)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|darüber]], [[inh|goh|dārubari|alt=dara ubiri]], made of the adverb [[dar]] “thither” and [[über]].^(DWB2|6, 338)^(Paul 2002)^(Köbler AHD) The first part is [[m|goh|thara]], an adverb of place answering the question “where to?”, formed from the demonstrative stem [[ine-pro|*te-|alt=*to-]], and the second [[m|goh|ubiri|t=over]], [[gem-pro|*uber-]].^(Kluge 2011|181)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Kluge 2011|938) In early Middle High German it was reinterpreted as [[da]] + the preposition.^(DWB2|6, 338) Pfeifer notes that in such combinations the adverbs for “there” and “thither” were mixed up early.^(Pfeifer 1993)

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+ The same formation is [[nl|daarover]], [[ofs|therūr]], [[non|þar yfir]] and [[en|thereover]].^(DWB2|6, 338)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first recorded in the Old High German ''Georgslied'' (late 9th century, in a manuscript of about 1000) and in Notker (before 1022).^(DWB2|6, 338)^(Köbler AHD) In Old and Middle High German it was mostly spatial, “over it, across it”.^(DWB|2, 795)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides place, the word came to refer to the subject of thinking or speaking, to an amount beyond a limit, and to time: Adelung noted that it could mean “meanwhile”, as when time passes or someone dies over a task.^(Paul 2002)^(FWB) Early New High German also used it in a causal sense, “because of that”.^(FWB) The phrase ''darüber hinaus'' “moreover” is now one of its most common uses.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 9th century – The Old High German ''Georgslied'' has the word.^(DWB2|6, 338)^(Köbler AHD)

+ * Before 1022 – Notker writes ''darubere''.^(DWB2|6, 338)

+ * 13th century – The contracted ''drüber'' appears.^(DWB2|6, 338)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|above|alt=Above]] it, over this place or thing.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Over it, onto it or across it.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # About it, concerning this matter.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # More, beyond this amount or limit.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary DE)

+ # [[m|en|meanwhile|alt=Meanwhile]], in the course of it; and so, because of it.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary DE)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[darüber hinaus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[drüber]]

+ * [[dar]]

+ * [[über]]

+ * [[da]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Darüber hinaus'' means “in addition, moreover”, and colloquial ''sich darüber machen'' means “to set about something”.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}