The story
- Old English · inherited fromofer sǣ
- Middle English · inherited fromover-se
- English todayoversea
From Middle English over-se, over see, ouer sea, from Old English ofer sǣ (literally “over/across (the) sea”); equivalent to over + sea. Compare West Frisian oerseesk, Dutch overzee, German Übersee, Danish oversøisk.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.