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Possibly reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur, the first prehistoric city, in ancient Mesopotamia
by dustingetz 4y ago
Possibly reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur, the first prehistoric city, in ancient Mesopotamia
- froh 4y agothat's a popular urban myth, alas the origin is some predecessor language to German. https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur- https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
- HerrMonnezza 4y agoSo Ur- comes from Urdeutsch? :-)
- Oreb 4y agoYou are joking, but the Proto-Germanic language (the ancestor of all current Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Faroese, etc. (sorry for the nested parens, but this is a Lisp thread))) is actually called “urgermansk” in Scandinavia.
- yesenadam 4y agoApparently not: From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-#German https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-#German