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means Toward a higher position, a greater amount, or an improved state — the opposite of down.

from From Old English 'up' or 'upp', going back to a very old Germanic root (related to German 'auf' and Dutch 'op') that linguists trace further to an ancient Indo-European base meaning roughly 'from below, upward.' It's one of the oldest, most stubbornly basic words in the language — too fundamental to ever need borrowing from anywhere else.