What is the meaning of -our?

Obsolete spelling of -or.

Forms agent nouns from other nouns or verbs, usually of Romance origin.

Reflects a variety of other Old French deverbal formations.

Sandved, Arthur (1985), “9. Derivational Suffixes”, in Introduction to Chaucerian English (Chaucer Studies; 11), Part II: Morphology, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41.

-ǒur, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

alternative form of -ure

alternative form of -or (both etymologies)

Source: wiktionary.org

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