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Revision as of 22:02, 30 December 2020
Englisch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Nomen
scur (plural scurs)
Etymology 2
Compare scour (“to run”).
Verb
scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)
- (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.
Adjective
scur
- dark brown (usually of hair)
- (figuratively) sombre
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.
Pronunciation
Nomen
sċūr m or f
Descendants
- Middle English: shour(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in shour#Middle English)
Old High German
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr.
Nomen
scūr m
Declension
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | scūr | scūri |
accusative | scūr | scūri |
genitive | scūres | scūro |
dative | scūre | scūrim, scūren |
instrumental | scūru | — |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”)
Nomen
scūr m
Descendants
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with obsolete senses
- British English
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- Requests for quotations/Halliwell
- Aromanian terms derived from Latin
- Aromanian terms borrowed from Italian
- Aromanian terms derived from Italian
- Aromanian lemmas
- Aromanian adjectives
- rup:Colors
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English masculine nouns
- Old English feminine nouns
- Old English nouns with multiple genders
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German masculine nouns
- Old High German i-stem nouns