scur
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
scur (plural scurs)
Etymology 2[edit]
Compare scour (“to run”).
Verb[edit]
scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)
- (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Aromanian[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.
Adjective[edit]
scur
- dark brown (usually of hair)
- (figuratively) sombre
Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sċūr m or f
Descendants[edit]
Old High German[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, whence also Old Saxon skūr, Old English scūr, Old Norse skúr.
Noun[edit]
scūr m
Declension[edit]
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | scūr | scūri |
accusative | scūr | scūri |
genitive | scūres | scūro |
dative | scūre | scūren |
instrumental | scūru | — |
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”)
Noun[edit]
scūr m
Descendants[edit]
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