Etymology

gour

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Today it means: A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim. Full definition →

French gour ← Latin gurges
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgurges
  2. French · borrowed fromgour“rock pool”
  3. English todaygour

From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gurges.

Words from the same roots

Latingurges all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.