ur-

Etymology
From, originally from , from , from , from (same meaning). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Prefix

 * 1) Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”.
 * 2) * 2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institute:
 * Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself.

Translations

 * Danish: ur-
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Maltese: bu-, buż-
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pra-
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Prefix

 * 1) ur- (proto-, primitive, original)
 * 2) great-;
 * 3)  very;
 * 1) great-;
 * 2)  very;
 * 1)  very;
 * 1)  very;

Prefix

 * , proto-

Etymology
From, from , , from , from.

Prefix

 * 1) ur- (proto-, primitive, original)
 * 2) great-;
 * 3)  very;
 * 1) great-;
 * 2)  very;
 * 1)  very;

Etymology
From,. Akin to.

Prefix

 * 1) before, ante-, pro-
 * 2)  very

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) primeval, primordial, primitive, proto-
 * 2) first, original
 * 3) exceedingly, extremely, very

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) primeval, primordial, primitive, proto-
 * 2) first, original
 * 3) exceedingly, extremely, very

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) thoroughly

Prefix

 * 1) aboriginal, primeval, proto-, original (with general connotations of old)
 * 2)  very, super-

Usage notes

 * Gives connotations of ancient when put before nouns. "Urhammaren" could be translated as "the ancient hammer" without further context.
 * Can be put before virtually any adjective or adverb as an intensifier.