TUR Etymology:
Via Middle High
German, from Old High German
turi, from Proto-Germanic
*duri- *durz, from Proto-Indo-European
*dʰwer-, *dʰwor- (“doorway, door, gate”), *dhur-. Cognate with Middle Dutch dore
(Dutch deur), Old Norse dyrr
(Swedish dörr, Danish dør). The Germanic word also existed in different
stem-endings: *dora-, *durą (German Tor, Old English dor
> English door), *duru- (Old
English duru).
"The German is like a willow.No matter which way you bend him,
he will always take root again."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
