Chur

See also: chur

English

Chur - aerial image

Chur

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kuːɹ/

Proper noun

Chur

1. A town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland.

Translations

Swiss town

• French: Coire (fr)
• German: Chur (de)
• Italian: Coira
• Romansch: Cuira

Anagrams

• Ruch, Urch

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Khur, Khûr

Etymology

From Romansch Cuira, Cuoira, Cuera, Coira, Cuoira, from a Celtic language cŭria ("tribe, kin"), from earlier *korjā, *korā, which is attested in many place names. The often cited derivation from Latin cūria (“senate”) is widely discredited as the first vowel in the Romansh name cannot be inherited from the long Latin ū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰuːr] (Graubünden)
• IPA^(key): [ˈxuːr] (most of Switzerland)

Proper noun

Chur n

1. Chur (a town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland).

Descendants

• → German: Chur
• → English: Chur

German

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German Chur.

Proper noun

Chur n (proper noun, genitive Churs or (optionally with an article) Chur)

1. Chur (a town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland)

Etymology 2

Noun

Chur f (genitive Chur, plural Churen)

1. Archaic spelling of Kur.

Declension

Declension of Chur [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Chur	die	Churen
genitive	einer	der	Chur	der	Churen
dative	einer	der	Chur	den	Churen
accusative	eine	die	Chur	die	Churen