Kur River (Kursk Oblast)
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The Kur (Russian: Кур) is a river in central Russia. It flows through the city of Kursk, where it falls into the Tuskar River (Russian: Тускарь), which then falls into the Seym. The name is related to a dialect word kur'ya 'long and narrow river bay,'[1] which itself may be a borrowing from Komi kurya 'bay' (although it has been suggested that the latter is borrowed from Russian).[2]
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- ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 232.
- ^ Max Vasmer, Etimologicheskii slovar' russkogo yazyka, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1967), p. 431.
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Coordinates: 51°43′22″N 36°11′29″E / 51.72278°N 36.19139°E
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