An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/oben

by Friedrich Kluge

oben, adverb, ‘above, aloft,’ from Middle High German obene, Old High German obana, adverb, ‘above, from above’; so too Old Saxon oƀan, oƀana, ‘down from above,’ Anglo-Saxon ufan, ‘from above,’ English preserved only in ab-ove. Allied to ober.