ur-
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ʊə/, /ɜː/
  • (America) IPA: /ɝ/
Prefix
  1. 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.
Related terms Translations
  • German: ur-
  • Russian: пра-



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