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preorigin

noun

Etymology

From pre- + origin.

  1. derived from orīgō — “beginning, source, birth, origin”
  2. derived from origine
  3. inherited from origine
  4. prefixed as preorigin — “pre + origin”

Definitions

  1. An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin.

    • In order to uncover and thereby unleash the force that both constitutes and disrupts signification in language, Kristeva returns to what she identifies as the source of that force, an ontological preorigin of meaning.
    • The positing of an origin in other words always goes along with the suppression of its own pre-origin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preorigin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA