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Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber.
Preposition
obar
- above
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
obar m inan
- (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