Tore

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From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor-(“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz-(“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus-(“bad, ill, difficult”), from Proto-Indo-European *dēwǝ-(“to fail, be behind, be lacking”). Cognate with Old High German zur-(“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶-( tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ-(dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

tore

See torus.

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.