ourie

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*uh₁r-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*ūrą
3. Old Norse · derived fromúr“precipitation”
4. English todayourie

From Old Norse úr (“precipitation”), from Proto-Germanic *ūrą, from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade form of *weh₁r- (“water”). Equivalent to dialectal Swedish urrigt (“chill; having the sensation of cold; shivering”, literally “urr-ie”) – urrigt väder = “chill weather” – partly stemming from urr (“the feeling of shivering”), an onomatopoetic word akin to brr, but potentially also derived from ur (historical alternate spelling: urr).

Words from the same roots