saur

See also: -saur

Contents

English

Etymology

Contracted from Irish salachar (“filth, nastiness”), from salach (“nasty”), from sal (“filth, refuse”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

saur

1. (Britain, dialectal) soil; dirt
2. (Britain, dialectal) dirty water
3. (Britain, dialectal) urine from a cowhouse

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for saur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Ruas, Sura, URAs, USAR, sura

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• seraur

Etymology

From Latin soror, with the variant form seraur deriving from the Latin accusative form sorōrem. Compare Romanian soră, suroră, sor, Italian suora, Old Italian suoro, French soeur, Old Spanish seror, Spanish sor, Friulian sûr, Romansch sora, sour.

Noun

saur f

1. sister

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French

Etymology

From Middle French saur, from Old French sor, from Frankish *sōri, *saur (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”). Cognate with Old English sēar (“dry”). More at sear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ/

Adjective

saur (feminine singular saure, masculine plural saurs, feminine plural saures)

1. (cooking) dried and smoked

Derived terms

• hareng saur (“kipper”)

Further reading

• “saur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Gothic

Romanization

saur

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse saurr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /søyːr/
• Rhymes: -øyːr

Noun

saur m (genitive singular saurs, no plural)

1. filth, dirt
2. feces

Declension

declension of saur

m-s1	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	saur	saurinn
accusative	saur	saurinn
dative	saur	saurnum
genitive	saurs	saursins

Synonyms

• (dirt): óhreinindi, saurindi, skítur
• (feces): skítur (vulgar), kúkur (informal)

Derived terms

• saurblað
• saurindi
• saurlifnaður
• saurlífi
• saurugur

Related terms

• seyra
• sori

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse saurr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɯ́ᵝːɾ], [sɞ́ːɣe̞ɾ], [sɞ́ɵ̯ːɾ], [sɑ́u̯ːɾ], [sɛ́u̯ːɾ]

  Rhymes: -ɞ́ɵ̯ːr

Noun

saur m

1. mote, speck, particle, dust

   Ji a fått’n saur (or söur) ti öjgä

   I have received a mote in the eye.

   Han gav mäg int’n saur’n gång

   He gave me not the slightest mote.

Alternative forms

• söur
• sor
• sȯger
• såger

Related terms

• sȯra
• söri

References

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “SAUR”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 559