topur

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈto.bər/

Noun

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
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
  • Middle Irish: topar, sopar

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
topur thopur topur
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  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

Turkish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Kazakh топыр (topyr).

Noun

topur

  1. The thorny outer shell of the chestnut.
  2. The green shell outside of the hazelnut.
  3. (dialectal) (Konya, İçel) Rough, bumpy area.

References
  • “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

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

Noun

topur

  1. (dialectal) (Ordu, Perşembe) patch, piece of earth, soil.
  2. (dialectal) (Ordu, Aybastı) Rough, fragmented soil.
References
  • 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
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