gour
See also: Ȝour
English
Noun
gour (plural gours)
- Dated form of gaur.
Etymology 2
From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge.
Noun
gour (plural gours)
- A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.
Anagrams
- Guro, guro
Breton
Etymology
From Old Breton gur, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros. Cognate with Welsh gŵr, Cornish gour, Gaulish viros, Latin vir, and Old English wer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuːʁ/
Noun
gour m (plural goured or gourien or gourion)
- man
- person (used in negation)
- (rare) husband
Derived terms
- Gourcuff
French
Etymology 1
From Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr.
Noun
gour m (plural gours)
- butte
Etymology 2
From Middle French, from Latin gurges.
Noun
gour m (plural gours)
- a permanent rock pool
- an oxbow, especially along the Loire
- 1995, Jean-Noël Degorce, Les milieux humides dans la Loire, page 110:
- Les gours les mieux pourvus en eau comme à Andrézieus auraient été les derniers délaissés par le fleuve, probablement lors des grandes crues du XIXeme comme le pense A. Le Griel.
- The pools best provided with water like the one at Andrézieux would have been the last separated from the river, probably during the great floods of the 19th century as thought by A. Le Griel.
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Descendants
- English: gour
References
- “gour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “gour/1”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
gour
- Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)