

1400), overlitel "too small" (mid-14c.), overshort, etc. Īmong the old words not now existing are Old English oferlufu (Middle English oferlufe), literally "over-love," hence "excessive or immoderate love." Over- in Middle English also could carry a sense of "too little, below normal," as in over-lyght "of too little weight" (c. This is rare in Modern English, but compare Gothic ufarmunnon "to forget," ufar-swaran "to swear falsely " Old English ofercræft "fraud." In some of its uses, moreover, over is a movable element, which can be prefixed at will to almost any verb or adjective of suitable sense, as freely as an adjective can be placed before a substantive or an adverb before an adjective.

The amount of overlay determines the type of hinge and door you will be using. Over and its Germanic relations were widely used as prefixes, and sometimes could be used with negative force. Overlay is the correlation of your cabinet doors to the cabinet face frames. Word-forming element meaning variously "above highest across higher in power or authority too much above normal outer beyond in time, too long," from Old English ofer (from PIE root *uper "over").
