The Kur (russian: Кур) is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in central
Russia
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. It flows through the city of
Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
, where it falls into the
Tuskar
Tuskar is a river in the Kursk Oblast of Russia and the third largest tributary of the Seym. Part of the greater Dnieper basin, the mouth of the river is located in the city of Kursk. The small river Kur
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, which then falls into the
Seym. The name relates to a dialect word ''kur'ya'' ("long and narrow river bay"), which itself may represent a borrowing from
Komi ''kurya'' 'bay' (although it has been suggested that the latter is borrowed from
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
).
[
]Max Vasmer
Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (; russian: Максимилиан Романович Фа́смер, translit=Maksimilian Romanovič Fásmer; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russo-German linguist. He studied problems of etymology in In ...
, ''Etimologicheskii slovar' russkogo yazyka'', vol. 2 (Moscow, 1967), p. 431.
References
External links
Kommersant.com description of Kursk Oblast
Rivers of Kursk Oblast
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