2-561: Artur is a cognate to the common male given name Arthur meaning " bear -like", or “of honour ”. It is believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word artos ("bear"). Other Celtic languages have similar first names, such as Old Irish Art, Artúur , Welsh Arth - which may also be the source for
4-435: The modern name. Art is also a diminutive form of the common name Arthur. In Estonian , and many Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages the name is spelled as Artur. The Finnish versions are Arttu and Artturi. Avestan aṣ̌a /arta and its Vedic equivalent ṛtá both derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ṛtá- "truth", which in turn continues Proto-Indo-European * h 2 r-to- "properly joined, right, true", from
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