ur-
Pronunciation Prefix
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Pronunciation Prefix
- Forming words with the sense of ‘proto-, primitive, original’.
- 2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institute:
- 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.
- 2007, Max Rodenbeck, ‘Lebanon's Agony’, New York Review of Books, vol. 54 no. 11:
- Lebanon ultimately remains hostage to the regional ur-conflict over Palestine.
- 2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institute:
- German: ur-
- Russian: пра-
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