"ur-ancestor" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ur- + ancestor.",
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          "ref": "2003, Confucius, translated by Edward Slingerland, Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, translation of original in Old Chinese",
          "text": "Often the ancestors were asked to intercede with the being who wielded the greatest power of all over the Shang people, the ur-ancestor known as the “Lord on High” (shangdi).",
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          "ref": "2006, Lesley Brill, Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema",
          "text": "In both, the first awareness of other creatures by the ur-ancestor (and therefore the first true self-consciousness) arrives through a feeling of a crowd on the skin.",
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          "ref": "2011, Dr. Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds",
          "text": "These two lineages converged somewhere in the late Paleozoic or early Triassic in a common “Ur-ancestor.”",
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        "An original ancestor; proto-ancestor."
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          "word": "Ur-ancestor"
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