How to pronounce Deskur?

DES-koor

Last Name

Polish-French

Descours - original French spelling

The 18th century polonization of the originally French name Descours

Deskur is the 18th century polonization of the French surname Descours. The French name is one of the French surnames where the first "s" is pronounced since it comes before a diphthong (ou) or (au). This is the same principle as in the pronounciation of the name Lescaut (see the opera Manon Lescaut). The polonization was formualated such that a Pole could read the name using Polish pronounciation rules and the result would sound as similar as possible to the original French pronounciation. Another example of an 18th century polonization of a French name can be found in Szopen = Chopin.