ur-ocean
nounEtymology Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- + ocean.
1
A primordial ocean.
- This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space:
2
Panthalassa.
- Related terms
- ur-continent