Discover the possibilities of PROMT neural machine translation meal, repast ( ceremonial meal held after funerals ) halotti tor funeral feast disznó tor meal on pig-killing dayĭeclension Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)įrom Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ ‎ ( thṓrax, “ breastplate, chest ” ), created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.(Can we find and add a quotation of Ray to this entry?) ( Britain, dialect ) A tower a turret.She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella-as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors-and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village. The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:.1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:īursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish torr, French tor, and Romansch tor/ tur/ tuor the first four are from Proto-Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις ‎ ( túrrhis ) and τύρσις ‎ ( túrsis )). Alternative form of tore ('hard, difficult strong rich').įrom Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor ‎ ( “ a high rock, lofty hill, tower ” ), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor ‎ ( “ hill ” ) ultimately from Latin turris ‎ ( “ high structure ” ), from Ancient Greek τύρρις ‎ ( túrrhis ), τύρσις ‎ ( túrsis, “ tower ” ), of non-Indo-European origin.Tor ‎ ( comparative more tor, superlative most tor )

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