gour

See also: Ȝour and Gour

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gour (plural gours)

1. Dated form of gaur.

Etymology 2

From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge.

Noun

gour (plural gours)

1. A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.

Anagrams

• Guro, guro

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton *gur, from Old Breton gur, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːʁ/

Noun

gour m (plural goured or gourien or gourion)

1. man
2. person (used in negation)
3. (rare) husband

Derived terms

• Gourcuff

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuʁ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr.

Noun

gour m (plural gours)

1. butte

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French, from Latin gurges.

Noun

gour m (plural gours)

1. a permanent rock pool
2. 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.

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

1. Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)