Word
of the Day for Friday 19th September 2014
Ursprache \OOR-shprah-khuh; German OOR-shprah-khuh\
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Noun
1. A hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages. |
Quotes
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He
might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I
understood. I was firmly in the present, watching the starlings cavort over
and under the telegraph wires and the wind shimmer the young leaves into a
muzzy Monet.
-- Will Self, My Idea of Fun, 1993 |
Origin
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Ursprache came to Enlgish in the 20th century from
the German prefix ur- meaning "earliest,
original" and Sprache meaning "speech."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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