turru

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /turˈru/
  • Hyphenation: tur‧ru

Noun

turrú f 

  1. joke

Declension

Declension of turrú
absolutive turrú
predicative turrú
subjective turrú
genitive turrú
Postpositioned forms
l-case turrúl
k-case turrúk
t-case turrút
h-case turrúh

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “turru”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎, Leiden: Leiden University

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Possibly belonging to the alleged Nuragic substrate. According to Pittau (2013), it should be compared to Latin tullius (“jet of water”), Spanish chorro (“flow”) and Basque txurru (“falling water”, onomatopoeic).[1] To these, one could also add Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌋 (tul, “heavy rain”).

Noun

turru m

  1. jet of water
  2. brook, small stream
  3. waterfall

References

  1. ^ Pittau, Massimo (2013), La lingua dei protosardi e quella dei baschi, at pittau.it

Further reading

Sicilian

Noun

turru m

  1. (chess) rook

See also

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