ors-

Buttocks, backside.

1. Suffixed form *ors-o-.

a. ass², from Old English ærs, ears, backside;

b. dodo, from Middle Dutch ærs, backside, tail. Both a and b from Germanic *arsaz.

2. Suffixed form *ors-ā-.

a. uro-², -urous; anthurium, anuran, cynosure, dasyure, eremurus, ophiuroid, oxyuriasis, sciurid, squirrel, trichuriasis, from Greek ourā, tail;

b. silurid, from Greek silouros, sheatfish, probably from ourā, tail (with an obscure first element).

 

[Pokorny ers- 340.]

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