bour

See also: Bour

Cornish

Etymology

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Noun

bour m (plural bouryow)

embankment

Mutation

Mutation of *bour*
radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
bour	vour	unchanged	pour	four, vour*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

“bour” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Middle English

Alternative forms

boure, bowre, bowur
bur (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buːr/

Noun

bour (plural boures)

A residence, house, or dwelling.
A bedroom or chamber (especially of a woman).
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 99, verso:
  fful sooty was hire bour / and eek hire halle / In which she eet / ful many a sklendre meel
  Her room was really sooty, and so was her hall; / there she ate plenty of lean meals
(figuratively) Something's resting place.
(rare) A pen or stall for an animal.

Related terms

neyghebour

Descendants

English: bower
Scots: bour

References

“bǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Alternative forms

buăr, buar, boar — archaic

Etymology

Inherited from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). It may have passed through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form or was influenced by bubulus; cf. the form bobulum. Compare also Albanian buall. Doublet of bivol, which came through a Slavic source.

Noun

bour m (plural bouri)

aurochs (Bos primigenius)
wild bull
wisent (Bison bonasus)
the old emblem of Moldavia (with the head of a wisent)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bour	bourul	bouri	bourii
genitive-dative	bour	bourului	bouri	bourilor
vocative	bourule		bourilor

Synonyms

(wisent): zimbru