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ur-form

ur-form is the alternative form of urform.

Meaning of urform

Noun

urform (plural urforms)

  1. The (real or idealised) version of a transmissible cultural element, such as a word, language, religion, ideology, folktale, melody, meme, etc., which is taken to be the original form from which all other versions have deviated.
    • Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed.2003, David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture
    Synonyms:
    protoform

Forms of ur-form

pluralur-forms

Questions about ur-form

What is ur-form the alternative form of?
Ur-form is the alternative form of urform.

Words near ur-form in the dictionary

  1. ur-continent
  2. ur-continents
  3. ur-cool
  4. ur-culture
  5. ur-cultures
  6. ur-form
  7. ur-forms
  8. Ur-Germanic
  9. ur-hero
  10. ur-heroes
  11. ur-homeland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ur-form (page history and authors); urform (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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