Ure

Meaning

Proper Noun

• river North Yorkshire (county) England (constituent country), which flows through Wensleydale

Origin

• Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter); first element from Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós ("vigorous, quick"), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् ("fast, quick"). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.