ur-
prefixUK /ʊə/ · US /ʊɹ/
Etymology From German ur-, from Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur- (“out; without”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away, out, outwards”). Doublet of a- and or-. Cognate also with Dutch oer- and Dutch oor-.
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Morpheme Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”.
- Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself.2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institutehttp://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/septoct2003/newsletterp8.html
- Lebanon ultimately remains hostage to the regional ur-conflict over Palestine.2007, Max Rodenbeck, ‘Lebanon's Agony’, New York Review of Books, volume 54, number 11:
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ur-ancestor, ur-bird, ur-continent, ur-culture, urelement, ur-fascism, urfly, urfolk, ur-form, Ur-Germanic, ur-Hamlet, ur-hero, ur-homeland, ur-language, ur-mind, ur-myth, ur-ocean, ur-poem, ur-race, ur-science, ur-source, ur-speech, urtext, ur-type, ur-vogel, ur-word- Related terms
- Urheimat, urheimat