tsukkõr

== Livonian == === Etymology === Latvian cukurs acquired the <c> (/ts/) sound only in the 19th century, before that it is attested as sukurs. Karulis thinks that the Latvian term was borrowed via a historical Livonian form sukker. Suhonen, in turn, list the modern Livonian tsukkõr as borrowed from Latvian cukurs, alongside he also lists sukkur from the comparably poorly attested Salaca Livonian and the form cukars from Dundaga Latvian (close to the modern Livonian speaking area), the latter is essentially identical to the modern Livonian term in its phonetic makeup. This would not be the only example of re-borrowing, compare, for example, Livonian būojõ from Latvian bojāt which ultimately from Livonian pūoj. If both Karulis and Suhonen be right, then tsukkõr is borrowed from Latvian cukurs, in turn reborrowed from Livonian sukkur ~ sukker, from German Zucker; see it for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtsukːər/, [ˈt̪sukːːər] === Noun === tsukkõr sugar ==== Declension ==== === References === Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tsukkõr”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra