"urform" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture",
          "text": "Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed.",
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          "ref": "2007, Donald Haase, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales",
          "text": "Thus he finally was able to present some suppositions about a folktale's origins: the time and place, as well as the urform (basic or original form).",
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          "ref": "2010, Rachel Cowgill, David Cooper, Clive Brown, Art and Ideology in European Opera",
          "text": "This Ur-form brings together the 'oriental' stasis of a non-Western drone, in the form of various pedal-points ... It maybe too much to argue that the Ur-form, as a hidden version of the oriental, is Djamileh's equivalent to Namouna's ironic […]",
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