The story
- Middle Irish · derived fromdúr
- Latin · derived fromdūrus“hard, stern”
- Scots · borrowed fromdour
- English todaydour
Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.
Words from the same roots
Latindūrus all →
dureduraindureneduricrustdurophagydurousdurum wheat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.