Dovre

Dovre

1. A municipality in Innlandet, Norway, previously in Oppland.

• Devor, Dover, Voder, drove, roved, vedro, vored

• IPA^(key): /²dovrə/, /²dɔvrə/
• Hyphenation: Dòv‧re

Originally a farm name; from Old Norse Dofrar f pl, from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Icelandic Dofrar.

Dovre ?

1. A village and municipality of Oppland, Norway
2. Ellipsis of Dovrefjell (“the mountains of Dovre”).

   Samstelte og trugne til Dovre fell

   United and loyal until (the mountains of) Dovre crumble

• Dovrefjell (“Dovre Mountains”)
• (demonym): døvre, dovring

From Old Norse Dofri, related to Dofrar (“Dovre”).

Dovre m (definite Dovren)

1. (Norse mythology) name of a jotun said to have raised Harald Fairhair

Dovre

1. Dover (a town and port in modern Kent, in southeast England)