Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure. · A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed. · A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top. · A control tower.
From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Displaced native Middle English stepel for the general sense of "tower". Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret.
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- Inherited-form mentiontourenm
- Inherited-form mentiontūrang
- Derivation mentiontourfro
- Derivation mentionturrisla
- Derivation mentionτύρριςgrc
- Cognate mentiontoursco
- Cognate mentiontoerfy
- Cognate mentiontorennl
- Cognate mentionTurmde
- Cognate mentiontårnda
- Cognate mentiontornsv
- Cognate mentionturnis
- Cognate mentiontŵrcy
- Doublet mentiontoren
- Doublet mentiontourelleen
- Doublet mentionturreten
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