thur

thur (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.
   • 2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times‎:

     “Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

thur

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.
   • 1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field‎:

     "I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."

   • 1905, Joseph Hocking, Roger Trewinion‎:

     Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."

• Hurt, Ruth, hurt, ruth, thru

From Proto-Albanian *tsurja, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥H-, zero-grade of *ḱer- (“to tie, plait”) (compare Ancient Greek καῖρος (kaîros, “row of thrums on the loom”), Armenian սարդ (sard, “spider”)).

thur (first-person singular past tense thura, participle thurur)

1. to plait, braid, interweave
2. to knit
3. to fence in, enclose

• thark

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /hʊɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /hʌɾˠ/

thur

1. Lenited form of tur.