overwordExplorer
WELSH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

aur.

gold

3 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/aɨ̯r/North-Wales/ai̯r/South-Wales

  1. gold

    masculine · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh eur, from Proto-Brythonic *ėür, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin aureus (“golden”, adjective). The vowel au (/aɨ̯/) must have undergone internal i-affection, showing that this word is derived from the adjective aureus, not the noun aurum, which gave the now obsolete synonym awr (not to be confused with awr (“hour”) from hōra).

adj/aɨ̯r/North-Wales/ai̯r/South-Wales

  1. golden (made of gold)

    not-comparable

  2. gold (in colour)

    not-comparable

  3. golden

    figuratively · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh eur, from Proto-Brythonic *ėür, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin aureus (“golden”, adjective). The vowel au (/aɨ̯/) must have undergone internal i-affection, showing that this word is derived from the adjective aureus, not the noun aurum, which gave the now obsolete synonym awr (not to be confused with awr (“hour”) from hōra).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

aur has 3 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

aur studioaur workshello, aur

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.