Ure
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ure"
English edit
Etymology edit
Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.
Proper noun edit
Ure
- A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
- A surname.
References edit
- Smith, A.H. (1962). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 7. Cambridge University Press.
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Ure