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urfirnis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ur-fir-nis
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ancient style of Greek pottery with a glaze-like paint.

Uncountable

Etymology

From German Ur (aurochs) + German Firnis (varnish).

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Questions

What does urfirnis mean?
An ancient style of Greek pottery with a glaze-like paint.
Where does urfirnis come from?
It is traced to German.

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