[Spellyans] hour
Daniel Prohaska
daniel at ryan-prohaska.com
Tue Oct 12 19:43:38 BST 2010
Correction: the German is <Uhr>, not **ühr.
Dan
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On 12.10.2010, at 18:21, Eddie Climo <eddie_climo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I note that German has 2 words for 'hour'"
> —stunde (for a period of 60 minutes)
> —ühr (for telling the time)
>
> By contrast, French and Welsh have a single word for both of those uses, 'heure' and 'awr' respectively.
>
> Nance (1938) gives:
> owr. hour, in reckoning time
> • a-jy dhe owr. within an hour (CW 2389)
> • nep try owr. some three hours (RD 2555)
> ür. hour, time
> • mar tuth an ur. if the (appointed) time has come (BM 746)
> • y'n ur-ma, now
> • y'n ur-na, then
> • nep ur. at any time
> • pup ur. always
> • py ur; p'ur. when
> with the note: see 'owr', preferred in clock time
>
> Eddie Climo
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>
> On 12 Hed 2010, at 13:49, nicholas williams wrote:
>
>> Eur seems to mean 'time, point in time'
>> Our means 'hour, sixty minutes'
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