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語源 1

名詞

scur (plural scurs)

1. (veterinary medicine) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.

語源 2

Compare scour (“to run”).

動詞

scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
   • 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain‎, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.:

     Here he whistled, and the animal, who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels, instantly returned with a gentle neigh.

参照

• “scur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr-

語源

From the merger of Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”) and Proto-Germanic *skūraz (“rainshower”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-. Cognate with Old High German scūr, Old Norse skúr.

発音

• IPA: /ʃuːr/
• 韻: -uːr

名詞

sċūr m or f

1. shower
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Þæt sē mon ne wāt þe him on foldan fæġrost limpeð, hū iċ earmċeariġ īsċealdne sǣ winter wunade wræċċan lāstum, winemǣgum bidroren, bihongen hrīmġiċelum; hæġl sċūrum flēag.

     The man does not know that who befalls most fairly on land, how wretched I dwelt winter on ice-cold sea by outcast’s paths, bereft of kinsmen, behung with frost-icicles; hail flew by showers.

語形変化

masculine

Strong a-stem:

feminine

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre, scur, shur (Early Middle English)
  • English: shower
  • Scots: shour, shouer, shoor, shooer