Urform

Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed.

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).

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 […]