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Sauris

Sauris proper noun: a village in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, one of the Germanic language islands in Italy, where Sauris Bavarian is spoken.

Proper noun

Sauris

  1. A village in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, one of the Germanic language islands in Italy, where Sauris Bavarian is spoken.
    • To the N. w. of Ampezzo, in the upper part of the Val Lumies, lie the sequestered villages of Sauris or Zahre (Sauris di Sotto, 3955'; Sauris di Sopra, 4440'), which, like Sappada (p. 421), are inhabited by Germans.1899, Karl Baedeker (Firm), The Eastern Alps: Including the Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, page 526
    • Lest it be assumed that the use in Sauris of Friulian and Italian is of very recent date, it is interesting to note that 120 years ago Joseph Bergmann (1849) gave German no chance of surviving there: […]2004, Edwin Ardener, Social Anthropology and Language, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 164

Origin of Sauris

First attested 1280, the name is said to be of Illyrian origin, from *savira (“current”) (compare Sanskrit सरित् (sarit)). Known in German as Zahre.

Questions about Sauris

What does Sauris mean?
Sauris means a village in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, one of the Germanic language islands in Italy, where Sauris Bavarian is spoken.
What part of speech is Sauris?
Sauris is a proper noun.

Words near Sauris in the dictionary

  1. saurichthyiform
  2. saurichthyiforms
  3. Saurier
  4. sauries
  5. sauriosis
  6. Sauris
  7. saurischian
  8. saurischians
  9. sauro-
  10. saurochory
  11. Sauroctonos

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