heur

Variant found in some dialects, especially that of Groningen.

• IPA^(key): /ɦøːr/

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heur (archaic or dialectal, now usually poetic or humorous)

1. alternative form of haar (“her [own], of her”, third-person singular feminine possessive determiner)

   heur weelderig haar ― her luxuriant hair

• As in the example above, it has been used in Standard Dutch chiefly to avoid the phrase haar haar (“her hair”). However, this avoidance is no longer common; when still applied today, it is typically tongue-in-cheek.

• De Nieuwe Taalgids, jaargang 21, 1927
• Onze Taal: Heur haar / haar haar

Inherited from Old French eür~aür, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augure, which was borrowed from Latin. The non-etymological ⟨h⟩ is due to association with heure (“hour, time”).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /œʁ/
• Rhymes: -œʁ
• Homophones: Eure, heure, heures, heurs, heurt, heurts

heur m (plural heurs)

1. (dated, literary, now rare) hap, chance, fortune
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:

     Sa joie éclatera dans l'heur de ses enfants

     She will shine with joy in the fortune of her children

• “heur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• huer, hure