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Jura

/ʒy.ʁa/

proper noun/ʒy.ʁa/

Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France); Jura (a canton of Switzerland); Jura (a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains); Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland)

From Vulgar Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of Gaulish *iuris (“wooded mountain”), commonly derived from Proto-Celtic *yor- (“forest”), but this remains speculative, as cognates of this Celtic root remain lacking. More at Jura.