>>6088208From Middle French sur, from Old French sur, sor, soure, sovre (“on, upon, over”), from Latin super (“over, on, above”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)uperi (“over, above”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *e?s (“out, out of”) + Proto-Indo-European *uperi, *upo- (“over, above”). Cognate with Old English ofer (“over, above”). More at over.
