ours
French
noun
Definitions
- bear (animal)
- masthead list of a newspaper's main staff
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French ours inherited from Old French urs inherited from Latin ursus (bear) inherited from Proto-Italic *orssos inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (bear).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ŕ̥tḱos
Gloss
bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
熊
Emoji
🐨 🐻❄️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ursid English
- *ussus Latin
- Urseius Latin
- ursa Latin
- ursinus Latin
- ursus Latin
- orsacchio Italian
- orsacchiotto Italian
- orsaggine Italian
- orso Italian
- ourson French
- ἄρκτος Ancient Greek
- *h₂ŕ̥tḱos Proto-Indo-European
- urso Portuguese
- ऋक्ष Sanskrit
- urs Old French
- urso Esperanto
- ós Catalan, Valencian
- urs Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- خرس Persian
- արջ Old Armenian
- ours Middle French
- *artos Proto-Celtic
- *Hrtća Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *Hŕ̥ćšas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- ursu Aromanian
- ors Occitan
- ors Maltese
- *orssos Proto-Italic
- uors Romansh
- urs Romansh
- ors Friulian
- ursu Sicilian
- *artsa Proto-Albanian
- *Hŕ̥šah Proto-Iranian
- lours Mauritian Creole
- lors Ladin
- *árktos Proto-Hellenic
- onso Aragonese
- lours Seychellois Creole
- ič̣ Kalasha
- oorso Somali
- ایݜ Torwali
- *ī́ṭṣa Proto-Dardic