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tsuris
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:39 am
by M. Henri Day
Alas, occasions on which the use of this loan from the Jiddisch would be appropriate are all too frequent in the lives of most of us. Note the resemblance to the clade of words in Indo-European languages deriving from the root
*angh- ....
Henri
tsu•ris also
tzu•ris Listen: [ tsǒǒrĭs, tsûr - ]
n. Informal
Trouble; aggravation.
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[Yiddish tsores, pl. of tsure, from Hebrew şārâ, from şārar,
to become narrow; see
şrr in Semitic roots.]
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:11 pm
by Flaminius
I always derived this word from "tsur", a rock, since a day full of tsuris is likened to a rocky road. But tsur may be derived from a different root. Perhaps it is s.-w-r?
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:28 pm
by tcward
Can't help but think of sorrow, either...
-Tim
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:34 am
by Flaminius
Perhaps sour too?