Ur Definition

ûr, o͝or
prefix
Original; prototypical.
Ur-feminist; ur-language.
American Heritage
affix
Original, primitive.
Webster's New World

Uro-

Webster's New World

Uro-

Webster's New World
noun

(initialism) Of underlying representation, a concept in phonology and morphophonology.

Wiktionary

Origin of Ur

  • Ger: akin to Goth us, ON ōr, out of, from, OE or-, early

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • From German ur– original Ursprache

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ur Sentence Examples

  • The objects, with the exception of those represented in the first three fi ures Stamped Brick-Inscription Of Pur-Sin, King Of Ur.

  • In Babylonia the abundance of clay and want of stone led to the employment of brick; the Babylonian temples are massive but shapeless structures of crude brick, supported by buttresses, the rain being carried off by drains, one of which at Ur was of lead.

  • From this text we learn that the Dynasty of Ur consisted of five kings and lasted for 117 years, and was.

  • This dynasty of Ur was Semitic, not Sumerian, notwithstanding the name of Dungi.

  • But even by postulating the highest possible dates for he Dynasties of Babylon and Ur, enormous gaps occurred in he scheme of chronology, which were unrepresented by any ro al name or record.

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