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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /skɜː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
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, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
- 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain:
- Here he whistled , and the animal , who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels , instantly returned with a gentle neigh
References
[edit]- “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Aromanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably ultimately from Latin obscūrus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.
Adjective
[edit]scur m (feminine scurã, plural scuri, feminine plural scuri or scure)
- dark brown (usually of hair)
- (figuratively) sombre
Lombard
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Italian scuro, from Latin obscurus.
Adjective
[edit]scur
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]scur
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schour
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]- Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre; scur, shur (Early Middle English)
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]Declension of scūr (masculine i-stem)
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | scūr | scūri |
accusative | scūr | scūri |
genitive | scūres | scūro |
dative | scūre | scūrim, scūren |
instrumental | scūru | — |
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter”).
Noun
[edit]scūr m
Descendants
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