Ur-word
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An original or primal word; a protoword.
"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", [...]"
Example
More examples"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", [...]"
Etymology
From ur- (“original, primal”) + word. Compare Dutch oerwoord, German Urwort.
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