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topur

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From to- +‎ uss- +‎ Proto-Celtic *ber-.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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. 29c7
      .i. is hé as topur inna n-ane.
      i.e. it is He who is the well of the treasures.
  2. well, spring

Inflection

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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

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  • Middle Irish: topar, sopar

Mutation

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Mutation of topur
radical lenition nasalization
topur thopur topur
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ "The Language of the Poems of Blathmac," in Ó Riain, Pádraig (ed.), The Poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan: Reassessments (2015). London: Irish Texts Society, p. 95

Further reading

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Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Kazakh топыр (topyr).

Noun

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topur

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

References

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  • 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

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

Noun

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topur

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