ur- 3
pref.(前缀)
语源
ur- 1
pref.(前缀)
ur- 2
pref.(前缀)
pref.(前缀)
- Original; prototypical:
原本的;原型的:
ur-feminist; ur-language.
原型女权主义者;原型语言
语源
- From German ur- [original] * see Ursprache
From German ur- [original] *参见 Ursprache
ur- 1
pref.(前缀)
- Variant of uro- 1
uro-的变体1
ur- 2
pref.(前缀)
- Variant of uro- 2
uro-的变体2
ur-
combining form
a variant of uro-1, uro-2
Ur-
combining form
original, primitive
⇒
Ursprache
Origin
Germanuro-1 or (before a vowel) ur-
combining form
indicating urine or the urinary tract
⇒
urochrome
⇒
urogenital
⇒
urolith
⇒
urology
Origin
from Greek ouron urineuro-2 or (before a vowel) ur-
combining form
indicating a tail
⇒
urochord
⇒
uropod
⇒
urostyle
Origin
from Greek ouraur-1
Word Origin
1
variant of uro-1 :
uranalysis.
ur-2
1
variant of uro-2. before a vowel:
urite.
ur-3
(sometimes initial capital letter)
1
a combining form meaning “earliest, original,” used in words denoting the primal stage of a historical or cultural entity or phenomenon:
ur-civilization; urtext.
Origin
< German ur-, Middle High German, Old High German; cognate with Old English or-
ur-/ɜ/ (say er)
a prefix denoting an early or primitive example of something, as in Urtext.
[German: original]ur-
combining form
or uro-
uric
2. urinary tract
urology
3. urinary and
urogenital
4. urea
uracil
combining form
or uro-
uropod
\\\\ˈu̇r\\\\ prefix
ur-form
2. original version of
urtext
3. prototypical : arch-
ur-anticommunist
I |
or uro-
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek our-, ouro-, from ouron urine, from ourein to urinate — more at urine
1. urineuric
2. urinary tract
urology
3. urinary and
urogenital
4. urea
uracil
II |
or uro-
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek our-, ouro-, from oura tail — more at ass
: tailuropod
III |
USAGE often capitalized
ETYMOLOGY German, from Old High German ir-, ur- thoroughly (perfective prefix) — more at abide
1. original : primitiveur-form
2. original version of
urtext
3. prototypical : arch-
ur-anticommunist
ur-
combining form
- primitive; original; earliest表示“原始的”, “原先的”, “最早的”:
-
urtext.
词源
from German.
[ 1864Max Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1871) II. 133The most troublesome of all vowels, the neutral vowel, sometimes called Urvocal, better Unvocal. ]
1889 Jacobs Caxton's Aesop I. 37Any light he can throw on the Ur-origin of the Fables.
1901 Boas Kyd'sWks. p. xlv,The Ur-Hamlet may have contained a number of these borrowings.
1926 A. Møller tr. Pedersen's Israel I. i. 245The word shēm is found in all Semitic languages and belongs to the absolutely certain ur-semitic components.
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. to Study of New Testament iii. 50It was an Ur-Evangelium, a primitive written Gospel, some say in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, on which our Gospels were based.
1937 O. Jespersen Analytic Syntax 142Some well-known students of language who even call this the ‘urform’ of sentences. [ sc. ‘S is P’]
1943 V. Nabokov in Atlantic Monthly May 69/2The dreadful vulgarity, the Ur-Hitlerism of those ludicrous but vicious organisations.
1947 Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 46For Long-Ago has been Ever-After since Ur-Papa gave The Primal Yawn that expressed all things.
1949 F. Fergusson Idea of Theater i. 26An enactment of the Ur-Myth of the year⁓god.
1950 Psychiatry XIII. 168/2 The concept of ur-language and ur-symbolism is of particular importance in Freud's thought.
1964 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image iv. 54Plato'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 argued to be one of the ur-sources of music. [ sc. Bartók]
1979 Ibid. 14 June 831/1Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's ur-history, Pioneers of Modern Design.
1983 Sunday Tel. 13 Mar. 14/6Russell Hoban is an ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other.
ur-
prefix meaning "original, earliest, primitive," from German ur- "out of, original," from Proto-Germanic *uz- "out," from PIE *ud- "up, out" (see out, adv.) At first only in words borrowed from German (such as ursprache "hypothetical primitive language"); since mid-20c. a living prefix in English. Compare also Urschleim under protoplasm and Urquell under Pilsner.
☞ ur-, uro-
ORIGIN: German .
ur-
prefix. original or earliest, as in ur-performance, urtext.
[< German Ur- primitive, original]
Ur (no period)
(formerly) uranium (chemical element). Now, U (no period).
ur-
I.combining form
or uro-
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek our-, ouro-, from ouron urine — more at urine
1. : urine
< uranalysis >
< urobilin >
2. : urinary tract
< urogram >
3. : urination
< urolagnia >
4. : urinal and
< urogenital >
5. : urea
< urethane >
< uracil >
6. : uric acid
< uroxanic >
II.combining form
or uro-
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek our-, ouro-, from oura, akin to Greek orrhos buttocks — more at ass
1. : tail : taillike
< urosteon >
< Uroglena >
< uropod >
2. : posterior segment, region, or process : caudal
< urite >
< urohyal >
< urosome >
I.
or uro-
1.
< uranalysis >
< urobilin >
2.
< urogram >
3.
< urolagnia >
4.
< urogenital >
5.
< urethane >
< uracil >
6.
< uroxanic >
II.
or uro-
1.
< urosteon >
< Uroglena >
< uropod >
2.
< urite >
< urohyal >
< urosome >
ur-
Prefix
- 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[1]:
- 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.
Etymology
From German ur-, originally from Old High German ir-, ur- (“thoroughly”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”), from Proto-Indo-European *ud- (same meaning). Cognate with Dutch oer-, English or-. Compare or-.
Derived terms
English words prefixed with ur-
References
- ^ “Ur-”, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.