Stour
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English
Etymology
Most of the rivers' names are from the root of stour (“powerful, tall, large”), though some may have been borrowed through and influenced by Celtic (compare Welsh dŵr (“water”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstaʊəɹ/
- (East Anglia) IPA(key): /ˈstʊəɹ/, /ˈstaʊɹ/
Proper noun
Stour
- A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
- A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
- A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
- 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 37:
- The Stour is at its lowest ebb, and the sheen of the flats makes it difficult to tell where ground ends and water begins, out in the bay.
- A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
- A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Taylor, Isaac: Words and Places, London, 2nd edition, 1921, p.143