Contionary:dur

Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk dur, from Old Skundavisk duru, from Halmisk ᛞᚢᚱᚢ (duru), ᛞᚢᚱᚢᛉ (duruŕ), from Proto-Germanic *durz. Originally a consonant-stem, the word shifted to an u-stem early in Halmisk, probably to avoid the direct contact between the similar sounding letters r and ŕ. As the original consonant-stem and u-stem noun classes merged in Late Old Skundavisk, this shift is now invisible and dur behaves like any modern regularly derived consonant-stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʊɐ/

Noun

dur f. (class 3b, genitive dur or dyr, plural dyre)

1. door

   Sleut the dur !

   Shut the door !