ur-prefix

Stress is often attracted to this prefix.

representing. German (also Middle High German, Old High German) ur-, denoting ‘primitive, original, earliest,’ as ur-Hamlet, ur-origin, ur-stock, etc. See also Urheimat n., Urschleim n., Ursprache n., Urtext n.German ursprache (= primitive language) has been frequently used in recent English philological works.

1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1871) II. 133 The most troublesome of all vowels, the neutral vowel, sometimes called Urvocal, better Unvocal.]

1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 37 Any light he can throw on the Ur-origin of the Fables.

1901 Boas Kyd's Wks. p. xlv The Ur-Hamlet may have contained a number of these borrowings.

1926 A. Møller tr. J. Pedersen Israel I. i. 245 The word shēm is found in all Semitic languages and belongs to the absolutely certain ur-semitic components.

1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. iii. 50 It was an Ur-Evangelium, a primitive written Gospel, some say in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, on which our Gospels were based.

1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. Syntax 142 Some well-known students of language who even call this [sc. ‘S is P’] the ‘urform’ of sentences.

1943 V. Nabokov in Atlantic Monthly May 69/2 The dreadful vulgarity, the Ur-Hitlerism of those ludicrous but vicious organisations.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 46 For Long-Ago has been Ever-After since Ur-Papa gave The Primal Yawn that expressed all things.

1949 F. Fergusson Idea of Theater i. 26 An enactment of the Ur-Myth of the year~god.

1950 Psychiatry 13 168/2 The concept of ur-language and ur-symbolism is of particular importance in Freud's thought.

a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) iv. 54 Plato's ur-Freudian doctrine of the dream as the expression of a submerged wish.

1966 Punch 9 Nov. 718/2 Above is Leonardo da Vinci's design for an ur-tank.

1971 Astrophysics & Space Sci. X. 363 (heading) Orientation of galaxies and a magnetic ‘urfield’.

1977 Listener 31 Mar. 416/1 The importance of the folk example which he [sc. Bartók] argued to be one of the ur-sources of music.

1979 Listener 14 June 831/1 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's ur-history, Pioneers of Modern Design.

1983 Sunday Tel. 13 Mar. 14/6 Russell Hoban is an ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	ur-
释义	ur-prefix Stress is often attracted to this prefix. representing. German (also Middle High German, Old High German) ur-, denoting ‘primitive, original, earliest,’ as ur-Hamlet, ur-origin, ur-stock, etc. See also Urheimat n., Urschleim n., Ursprache n., Urtext n.German ursprache (= primitive language) has been frequently used in recent English philological works. Π 1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1871) II. 133 The most troublesome of all vowels, the neutral vowel, sometimes called Urvocal, better Unvocal.] 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 37 Any light he can throw on the Ur-origin of the Fables. 1901 Boas Kyd's Wks. p. xlv The Ur-Hamlet may have contained a number of these borrowings. 1926 A. Møller tr. J. Pedersen Israel I. i. 245 The word shēm is found in all Semitic languages and belongs to the absolutely certain ur-semitic components. 1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. iii. 50 It was an Ur-Evangelium, a primitive written Gospel, some say in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, on which our Gospels were based. 1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. Syntax 142 Some well-known students of language who even call this [sc. ‘S is P’] the ‘urform’ of sentences. 1943 V. Nabokov in Atlantic Monthly May 69/2 The dreadful vulgarity, the Ur-Hitlerism of those ludicrous but vicious organisations. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 46 For Long-Ago has been Ever-After since Ur-Papa gave The Primal Yawn that expressed all things. 1949 F. Fergusson Idea of Theater i. 26 An enactment of the Ur-Myth of the year~god. 1950 Psychiatry 13 168/2 The concept of ur-language and ur-symbolism is of particular importance in Freud's thought. a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) iv. 54 Plato's ur-Freudian doctrine of the dream as the expression of a submerged wish. 1966 Punch 9 Nov. 718/2 Above is Leonardo da Vinci's design for an ur-tank. 1971 Astrophysics & Space Sci. X. 363 (heading) Orientation of galaxies and a magnetic ‘urfield’. 1977 Listener 31 Mar. 416/1 The importance of the folk example which he [sc. Bartók] argued to be one of the ur-sources of music. 1979 Listener 14 June 831/1 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's ur-history, Pioneers of Modern Design. 1983 Sunday Tel. 13 Mar. 14/6 Russell Hoban is an ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < prefix1889
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