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kur

Pronunciation: [kùɾ]

“kur” is a Latvian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adverb

  1. where? in what place?
  2. where? where to? to what place? whither?
  3. indicates an indeterminate or unknown place; where, wherever, somewhere
  4. indicates denial, impossibility
  5. used to stress the degree of a quality, or to add emotional intensity; syn. cik; how..., how much..., what a...
  6. used to make an utterance more expressive, to strengthen it; ah...! what happened to...!
  7. used to indicate concession; let ... wherever
  8. indicates a place related to the action described by the verb; (a place) where, anywhere, somewhere

conjunction

  1. where; used to introduce subordinate clauses indicating location and relating to elements of the main clause with various different functions

pronoun

  1. where; used to link a component of a subordinate clause with a component of a main clause, expressing a locative relation

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *kur, from the same Proto-Indo-European stem *kʷu-, *kʷo- as the interrogative pronoun kas (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian kur̃, Old Church Slavonic къде (kŭde) (cf. Russian где (gde)), Sanskrit कुह (kúha).

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