The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*uh₁r-
- Latin · derived fromūrīna“urine”
- Middle English · inherited fromuryne
- English todayurine
From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.
Words from the same roots
Latinūrīna all →
urocanicurocanic acid
Proto-Indo-European*uh₁r- all →
ourie
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.