saur

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English

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English *saur, variant of sour (“mud”), from Old Norse saurr.

Noun

saur

  1. (UK, dialect) soil; dirt
  2. (UK, dialect) dirty water
  3. (UK, dialect) urine from a cowhouse

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “saur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 2

Noun

saur (plural saurs)

  1. Alternative form of 'saur (“a dinosaur”)

Anagrams

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin soror, with the variant form seraur deriving from the Latin accusative form sorōrem. Compare Romanian soră, suroră, sor, Italian suora, Old Italian suoro, French soeur, Old Spanish seror, Spanish sor, Friulian sûr, Romansch sora, sour.

Noun

saur f

  1. sister

French

Etymology

From Middle French saur, from Old French sor, from Frankish *sōri, *saur (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”). Cognate with Old English sēar (“dry”). More at sear.

Pronunciation

Adjective

saur (feminine saure, masculine plural saurs, feminine plural saures)

  1. (cooking) dried and smoked

Derived terms

Further reading

Gothic

Romanization

saur

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse saurr, from Proto-Germanic *sauraz.

Pronunciation

Noun

saur m (genitive singular saurs, no plural)

  1. filth, dirt
  2. feces

Declension

Declension of saur (sg-only masculine)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative saur saurinn
accusative saur saurinn
dative saur saurnum
genitive saurs saursins

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