apur

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /apur/ [a.pur]
  • Rhymes: -apur, -ur
  • Hyphenation: a‧pur

Noun

apur ?

  1. crumb

Derived terms

Marsian

Etymology

Unknown. From the same source as Latin apud. The term shows the rhotacization of /d/ before labials, a feature found in other Marsian inscriptions.

Preposition

apur

  1. at, beside, near
    • c. 294 BC, Caso Cantovios inscription (Italian Wikipedia; image 1, image 2):
      CASO·CANTOVIO/S·APRUFCLANO·CEI/P(ED)·APURFINEM·E/CALICO·MENUR/BID·CASONTONI/SOCIEQUE·DONO/M·ATOLERO·ACTIA·/PRO·L[ECIO]NIBUS·MAR/TSES
      Casos Cantovios Aprufclanos captured (this) near the finis Gallicus in the city of Casontonius, and his socii brought it as a gift to Angitia on behalf of the Marsic troops.

References

  • Robert Seymour Conway (1897) The Italic Dialects[1] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 601
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
  • Rex Wallace (1984) The Sabellian Languages[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 69