Búfan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

búfon;

búfan

prep. dat. [be-ufan] Above; super; used in opposition to under:-- God totwǽmde ða wæteru, ðe wǽron under ðære fæstnisse fram ðám ðe wǽron búfan ðære fæstnisse Deus divisit aquas, quæ erant sub firmamento ab his quæ erant super firmamentum. Gen. l, 7. Búfan ðam máran wealle above the greater wall, Ors. 2, 4; Bos. 44, 28. Twentig míla búfan Lundenbyrig twenty miles above London, Chr. 896; Th. 172, 25. DER. ufan; prep. bufan