stour – English noun declension

English noun forms of stour

Noun: stour
Singularstour
Pluralstours

Sample Sentences

  • Then there began a passyng harde stoure, for the Romaynes ever wexed ever bygger. [, Book V]
  • This pair, who past have many a dreadful stour, / And proffer now to prove this venture stout, / Alone to this attempt let them go forth, / Alone than thousands of more price and worth. [1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xv]
  • "Travel shall I and woo;
  • Plight me shall I a flower;
  • Try shall I my sword so good,
  • To my weal or my woe in the stour." [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 170:]
  • Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”).
2. Cognates
3. Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately. See: Middle English Nouns 'store', Polish Nouns 'stary'.

Verbs referencing "stour"

Ancient Greek Nouns σταυρός.