Etymograph

English

taur

Taur comes from Ancient Greek ταῦρος ‘bull’, and goes back to Proto-Semitic *ṯawr-.

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ṯawr-‘bull, ox’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*táwros‘wild bull, aurochs’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*táurosreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEταῦροςtaûros‘bull’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2021taur

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ṯawr-‘bull, ox’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*táwros‘wild bull, aurochs’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*táurosreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEταῦροςtaûros‘bull’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2021taur

Earliest quotation: 2021, Ian Madison Keller, Mary E. Dowd: “Tails and wings both greatly affect clothing choices, same…”

Every English word from Proto-Semitic *ṯawr-

Today it means

noun A fictional creature, resembling a centaur, with the lower body of some four-or-more-legged animal and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version of that same animal or (less commonly) of a human or another humanoid creature.

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Etymograph / Proto-Semitic *ṯawr- / taur

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