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ur-words

ur-words is the plural of ur-word.

Meaning of ur-word

Noun

ur-word (plural ur-words)

  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", [...]1997, Fritz Buri, The Buddha-Christ As the Lord of the True Self

Questions about ur-words

What is ur-words the plural of?
Ur-words is the plural of ur-word.

Words near ur-words in the dictionary

  1. ur-text
  2. ur-texts
  3. ur-type
  4. ur-types
  5. ur-word
  6. ur-words
  7. URA
  8. Urabunna
  9. urachal
  10. urachi
  11. urachovesical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ur-words (page history and authors); ur-word (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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