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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Urform
Synonyms for "urform" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- oervorm noun (Translations)
German
1 entries- Urform noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- прафо́рма noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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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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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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