gour
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
gour (plural gours)
Etymology 2 edit
From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge.
Noun edit
gour (plural gours)
- A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.
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Breton edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Breton *gur, from Old Breton gur, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gour m (plural goured or gourien or gourion)
Derived terms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr.
Noun edit
gour m (plural gours)
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Middle French, from Latin gurges.
Noun edit
gour m (plural gours)
- a permanent rock pool
- an oxbow, especially along the Loire
- 1995, Jean-Noël Degorce, Les milieux humides dans la Loire[1], 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 edit
- English: gour
References edit
- “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 edit
Noun edit
gour
- Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)