"Tor" is an interesting word. Apart from its digital designation as an anonymous computer network, it refers to a gateway, goal or door in German, which explains its use as a component of many place names. After having spent more than a week in the Netherlands, I've dicovered that the same word means "beetle" or "scarab" in Dutch. Not the close cognate one might expect, save perhaps in some metaphorical or mythological sense.
Certain languages like Turkish retain the classical derivation of a hill or tower (presumably through the Latin turris), but with various other usages and meanings having long since taken firmer prominence. The Old English and / or Celtic root tor designating a rocky outcrop at the peak of a hill is seemingly only loosely retained elsewhere, being almost certainly unrelated to the infinitives torquere or torrere, verbs that mean "to twist"; only torso carries with it an echo of rugged, windswept highlands desiccated by the ravages of time.
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