Ove

From Old Danish Aghi, possibly a short form of compound names beginning with Germanic agh "blade" or Old Norse agi "awe". Related to German (Frisian) Uwe. Sometimes explained as a form of Scandinavian Åge/Åke.

Ove

1. a male given name

• (surnames) Ovesen

• Uwe

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 25 606 males with the given name Ove have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Central Franconian Ovve, from Middle High German oven, from Old High German ofan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːvə/
• Rhymes: -oːvə
• Hyphenation: O‧ve

Ove m (plural Ove, diminutive Oveche)

1. oven, stove

   Unser Ove is schun alt.

   Our stove is already old.

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Ove”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 121

Ove

1. a male given name of Danish origin

• IPA^(key): /²uːvɛ/

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• Rhymes: -²uːvɛ

Ove c (genitive Oves)

1. a male given name borrowed from Denmark in the Middle Ages