ours.
bear
Meaning & usage
bear
A person like a bear: loner, someone who avoids company
faire l'ours
A person like a bear: beast, beastly person
A person like a bear: bear (hairy gay man)
A person like a bear: pressman, worker with a hand printing press
masthead, imprint (list of a publication's main staff)
rough cut
prison, jail
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos Proto-Italic *orsos Latin ursus Old French urs Middle French ours French ours Inherited from Middle French ours, from Old French urs, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orsos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. The Early Modern French pronunciation was /uʁ/ before consonants, /uʁz/ before vowels, and /uʁs/ in pausa. For the most part, the pausal pronunciations were eventually lost, but in some cases they were re-established as the basic form (reinforced in part by the spelling, in part by related words; in this case perhaps the feminine ourse).
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