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Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.
Dour can refer to: Places. Dour, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium; River Dour, a river in England; Ad-Dawr (also known as Al-Dour), a town in Iraq; Ed-Dur (also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour), archeological site in the United Arab Emirates; Other. dour, a personality type characterized by excessive seriousness; Dour (TV serial), Pakistani ...
Dour (French pronunciation:; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km 2 , giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km 2 .
dour (PIE *deub h-). Drave: in Latin Dravus, of Thracian or Illyrian origin, probably from PIE *dhreu = "to flow, to fall". Don (Aberdeenshire, Scotland): from Celtic Devona "goddess" Emajõgi: Estonian meaning "mother river" Erne: Irish after the name of the mythical princess, Éirne; Foyle: Irish meaning "estuary of the lip"
Nouns and adjectives [ edit ] The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin dictionaries) is the Latin nominative singular, but that typically does not exhibit the root form from which English nouns are generally derived.
In English legal history, there were originally five kinds of dower: [1] [2] Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, was the closest to modern meaning of dower.It was the property secured by law, in bride's name at the church porch (where marriages used to take place).
Modern Welsh dŵr "water" is cognate with modern Breton dour and Cornish dur "water" and results from a later typical Brittonic evolution of *dubro-, [7] unknown in the Continental Celtic languages. The possible origin is the hydronymic root *dur- , which is Pre-Indo-European or Pre-Celtic .