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thur

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See also: Thur and Thür

English

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Adverb

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thur (not comparable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.
    • 2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times[1]:
      “Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

Pronoun

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thur

  1. Pronunciation spelling of there.
    • 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field[2]:
      "I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."
    • 1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion[3]:
      Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *tsurja, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥H-, zero-grade of *ḱer- (to tie, plait) (compare Ancient Greek καῖρος (kaîros, row of thrums on the loom), Armenian սարդ (sard, spider)).

Verb

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thur (aorist thura, participle thurur)

  1. to plait, braid, interweave
  2. to knit
  3. to fence in, enclose
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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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thur

  1. Lenited form of tur.