oferstigan

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Equivalent to, literally "to climb over or across."

Verb

 * 1) climb over: surmount, rise above
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Holy Virgins"
 * "ang"

- Eles ġecynd is þæt hē wile oferstīgan ǣlcne wǣtan.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Þā ġenam Catalīnus þrēo hund manna mid him and on ānre dēagolre stōwe þone munt oferstāg.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's 
 * "ang"

- Sume þā ȳðe beċiereþ sē stēora mid þȳ sċipe, sume hē oferstīġþ.


 * 1) to go past, cross
 * 2)  (by extension) to be more or better: surpass, transcend, exceed
 * 3) * c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Fisċeras and unġetogene menn ġeċēas Dryhten him tō leornungcneohtum and hīe swā ġetēah þæt heora lār oferstāg ealne weoroldwīsdōm.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
 * "ang"

- On 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.