topur

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ uss- +‎ Proto-Celtic *ber-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.bər/

Noun

topur m

1. source
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29^c7

     .i. is hé as topur inna n-ane.

     i.e. it is He who is the well of the treasures.

2. well, spring

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	topur	topurL	topairL
Vocative	topair	topurL	toipriuH
Accusative	topurN	topurL	toipriuH
Genitive	topairL	topur	topurN
Dative	topurL	toiprib	toiprib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: topar, sopar
  • Irish: tobar
  • Scottish Gaelic: tobar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
topur	thopur	topur pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “topar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Kazakh топыр (topyr).

Noun

topur

1. The thorny outer shell of the chestnut.
2. The green shell outside of the hazelnut.

References

• “topur”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 10, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1978

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *topur. Cognate with Turkmen topur.

Noun

topur

1. (dialectal) (Ordu, Perşembe) patch, piece of earth, soil.
2. (dialectal) (Ordu, Aybastı) Rough, fragmented soil.
3. (dialectal) (Konya, İçel) Rough, bumpy area.

References

• Aydın, Mehmet. (2009) Aybastı Ağzı İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük. Ankara: s. 231
• “topur”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 10, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1978