bufan

Etymology

 * equivalent to.

Preposition

 * 1) above (Object takes dative)
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- ...and būfan þām māran wealle, ofer eallne þone ymbgong, hē is mid stǣnenum wīġhūsum beworht.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Third Sunday after the Lord's Epiphany"
 * "ang"

- We rædað on Cristes acennednysse þæt heofonlice englas wæron gesewene būfan ðam acennedan cilde, and hí ðisne lófsang mid micclum dreame gesungon, "Gloria in excelsis Deo, and in terra pax hominibus bone uoluntatis:" þæt is on urum gereorde, "Sy wuldor Gode on heannyssum, and on eorðan sibb ðam mannum ðe synd gódes willan."