Ur-word
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ur-word is a noun meaning An original or primal word; a protoword.
Meaning
An original or primal word; a protoword.
Example Sentences
According to Hillis Miller, Hopkins supposed that, by a continuous process of subdivision, all words descend from a first original, an ur-word.
Enowning, enabling saying (showing), makes way in clearing and opening ways for gathering-thinging. Heidegger in another work calls on an Ur-word from the East, bringing it into play with the thought of enowning.
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", [...]
Word Forms
- ur-words
- urword
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include protoword, primitive, primordium, protoform, prepositive, proword.
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