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Cognate with Latvianšàurs(“narrow”), with further origin disputed:
According to Derksen and Smoczynski, the words could be from Proto-Indo-European*sewh₁-ro-,[1] from *sewh₁-(“to squeeze, press”) (which Derksen gives as *seu-); compare Sanskritसुनोति(sunoti, “to press”).[2]
According to Karulis, the words could be from *sewh₁-(“to bend; to cut; to drive, press”), with semantic shift “bent (inward), concave” > “narrow”; compare Sanskritसुवति(suvati, “to impel, set in motion”).[3]
