saur

Contracted from Irish salachar (“filth, nastiness”), from salach (“nasty”), from sal (“filth, refuse”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

saur

1. (Britain, dialectal) soil; dirt
2. (Britain, dialectal) dirty water
3. (Britain, dialectal) urine from a cowhouse

• Ruas, Sura, URAs, USAR, sura

• seraur

From Latin soror, with the variant form seraur deriving from the Latin accusative form sorōrem. Compare Romanian soră, suroră, sor, Italian suora, Old Italian suoro, French soeur, Old Spanish seror, Spanish sor, Friulian sûr, Romansch sora, sour.

saur f

1. sister

From Middle French saur, from Old French sor, from Frankish *sōri, *saur (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”). Cognate with Old English sēar (“dry”). More at sear.

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ/

saur (feminine singular saure, masculine plural saurs, feminine plural saures)

1. (cooking) dried and smoked

• hareng saur (“kipper”)

• “saur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

saur

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐍂

From Old Norse saurr.

• IPA^(key): /søyːr/
• Rhymes: -øyːr

saur m (genitive singular saurs, no plural)

1. filth, dirt
2. feces

• (dirt): óhreinindi, saurindi, skítur
• (feces): skítur (vulgar), kúkur (informal)

• saurblað
• saurindi
• saurlifnaður
• saurlífi
• saurugur

• seyra
• sori

From Old Norse saurr.

• IPA^(key): [sɯ́ᵝːɾ], [sɞ́ːɣe̞ɾ], [sɞ́ɵ̯ːɾ], [sɑ́u̯ːɾ], [sɛ́u̯ːɾ]

  Rhymes: -ɞ́ɵ̯ːr

saur m

1. mote, speck, particle, dust

   Ji a fått’n saur (or söur) ti öjgä

   I have received a mote in the eye.

   Han gav mäg int’n saur’n gång

   He gave me not the slightest mote.

• söur
• sor
• sȯger
• såger

• sȯra
• söri

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “SAUR”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 559