туръ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• тоуръ (turŭ), тꙋръ (turŭ)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic тоуръ (turŭ) and Old Polish tur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈturʊ/→/ˈturʊ/→/ˈtur/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈturʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈturʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈtur/

• Hyphenation: ту‧ръ

Noun

туръ (turŭ) m (related adjective туровъ)

1. Any large type of wild cattle, including the wisent and the buffalo.

Declension

Declension of туръ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	туръ turŭ	тура tura	тури turi
Genitive	тура tura	туру turu	туръ turŭ
Dative	туру turu	турома turoma	туромъ turomŭ
Accusative	туръ turŭ	тура tura	турꙑ tury
Instrumental	туръмь turŭmĭ	турома turoma	турꙑ tury
Locative	турѣ turě	туру turu	турѣхъ turěxŭ
Vocative	туре ture	тура tura	тури turi

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: туръ (tur)
  • Belarusian: тур (tur)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: тур (tur)
  • Ukrainian: тур (tur)
• Russian: тур (tur)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тꙋръ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1037
• Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text]‎^[2] (in Russian), Moscow, Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 306

Old Ruthenian

туръ

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic тоуръ (turŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Cognate with Russian тур (tur), Old Church Slavonic тоуръ (turŭ).

Noun

туръ • (tur) m animal

1. urochs (Bos primigenius)

Descendants

• Belarusian: тур (tur)
• Carpathian Rusyn: тур (tur)
• Ukrainian: тур (tur)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2014), “туръ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 34 (тресолнечный – умопомятенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 78
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*туръ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 451