ur-ancestor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Alternative form of ur-ancestor.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
Etymology
From ur- + ancestor.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ur