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ur-ancestor

noun

Etymology

From ur- + ancestor.

  1. derived from ancessor
  2. derived from ancestre
  3. derived from ancestre
  4. prefixed as ur-ancestor — “ur + ancestor”

Definitions

  1. An original ancestor

    An original ancestor; proto-ancestor.

    • Often the ancestors were asked to intercede with the being who wielded the greatest power of all over the Shang people, the ur-ancestor known as the “Lord on High” (shangdi).
    • In both, the first awareness of other creatures by the ur-ancestor (and therefore the first true self-consciousness) arrives through a feeling of a crowd on the skin.
    • These two lineages converged somewhere in the late Paleozoic or early Triassic in a common “Ur-ancestor.”

  2. Alternative form of ur-ancestor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ur-ancestor. 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