"ur-word" meaning in English

See ur-word in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: ur-words [plural]
Etymology: From ur- (“original, primal”) + word. Compare Dutch oerwoord, German Urwort. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|ur|word|t1=original, primal}} ur- (“original, primal”) + word, {{cog|nl|oerwoord}} Dutch oerwoord, {{cog|de|Urwort}} German Urwort Head templates: {{en-noun}} ur-word (plural ur-words)
  1. An original or primal word; a protoword. Synonyms: urword
    Sense id: en-ur-word-en-noun-E3cyg99B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with ur-

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for ur-word meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "word",
        "t1": "original, primal"
      },
      "expansion": "ur- (“original, primal”) + word",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "oerwoord"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch oerwoord",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Urwort"
      },
      "expansion": "German Urwort",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ur- (“original, primal”) + word. Compare Dutch oerwoord, German Urwort.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ur-words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ur-word (plural ur-words)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with ur-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Fritz Buri, The Buddha-Christ As the Lord of the True Self",
          "text": "As \"neither linguistically conceived experience nor speech-less experience,\" but rather as \"the experience of the removal of the word\" and in unity with the experience of the birth of the word,\" the \"Ur-word\" would correspond accordingly to the \"Ur-sentence\", [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Powell Ward, The Spell of the Song",
          "text": "According to Hillis Miller, Hopkins supposed that, by a continuous process of subdivision, all words descend from a first original, an ur-word.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gail Stenstad, Transformations",
          "text": "Enowning, enabling saying (showing), makes way in clearing and opening ways for gathering-thinging. Heidegger in another work calls on an Ur-word from the East, bringing it into play with the thought of enowning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An original or primal word; a protoword."
      ],
      "id": "en-ur-word-en-noun-E3cyg99B",
      "links": [
        [
          "original",
          "original"
        ],
        [
          "primal",
          "primal"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "protoword",
          "protoword"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "urword"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ur-word"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "word",
        "t1": "original, primal"
      },
      "expansion": "ur- (“original, primal”) + word",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "oerwoord"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch oerwoord",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Urwort"
      },
      "expansion": "German Urwort",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ur- (“original, primal”) + word. Compare Dutch oerwoord, German Urwort.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ur-words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ur-word (plural ur-words)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with ur-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Fritz Buri, The Buddha-Christ As the Lord of the True Self",
          "text": "As \"neither linguistically conceived experience nor speech-less experience,\" but rather as \"the experience of the removal of the word\" and in unity with the experience of the birth of the word,\" the \"Ur-word\" would correspond accordingly to the \"Ur-sentence\", [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Powell Ward, The Spell of the Song",
          "text": "According to Hillis Miller, Hopkins supposed that, by a continuous process of subdivision, all words descend from a first original, an ur-word.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Gail Stenstad, Transformations",
          "text": "Enowning, enabling saying (showing), makes way in clearing and opening ways for gathering-thinging. Heidegger in another work calls on an Ur-word from the East, bringing it into play with the thought of enowning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An original or primal word; a protoword."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "original",
          "original"
        ],
        [
          "primal",
          "primal"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "protoword",
          "protoword"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "urword"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ur-word"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.