twr
Welsh (Colloquial)
/tʊr/
noun
Definitions
- crowd, group
- heap, pile
Etymology
Inherited from Old Welsh twrr derived from Old English torr (tower, a high rock) derived from Latin turris (tower, rook, a tower).
Origin
Latin
turris
Gloss
tower, rook, a tower
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
楼, 塔
Emoji
🗼
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Torquay English
- tor English
- torlike English
- Taurini Latin
- turriger Latin
- turris Latin
- Turm German
- tour French
- τύρρις Ancient Greek
- torn Swedish
- fyrtorr Old English
- torr Old English
- tor Middle English
- *torn Old French
- tor Old French
- torete Old French
- torn Old French
- tour Old French
- tur Old French
- turn Icelandic
- pen Welsh
- pentwr Welsh
- pentyrru Welsh
- tyrrau Welsh
- tyrru Welsh
- torn Old High German
- *dubros Proto-Celtic
- torn Middle Low German
- tōrn Middle Low German
- torri Maltese
- toer Western Frisian
- *tor Old Welsh
- twrr Old Welsh