Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2010/05

From: "charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] mozart
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:24:32 -0400

On 5/10/2010 11:11 AM, Michael Nichols wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dan Leeson<dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> The term "urtext" derives from the biblical reference to the city of Ur,
>> which is suggested to place where everything began; i.e., the origin.
>>
> Where did you hear that, Dan?
>

from the OED:
Urtext

[Ger., f. /ur-/ UR-
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=urtext&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha&xrefword=ur->
+ /text/ TEXT
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=urtext&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha&xrefword=text&ps=n.&homonym_no=1>
/n./^1 ]

*{trli}ur-*, /prefix/

SECOND EDITION 1989

({shtu}{schwa}r)

repr. G. (also MHG., OHG.) /ur-/, denoting 'primitive, original,
earliest,' as */ur-Hamlet/*, */-origin/*, */-stock/*, etc. See also
URHEIMAT
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=ur-&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=JU3f-3IydGs-5754&result_place=2&xrefword=Urheimat>,
URSCHLEIM
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=ur-&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=JU3f-3IydGs-5754&result_place=2&xrefword=Urschleim>,
URSPRACHE
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=ur-&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=JU3f-3IydGs-5754&result_place=2&xrefword=Ursprache>,
URTEXT
</cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=ur-&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=JU3f-3IydGs-5754&result_place=2&xrefword=Urtext>.

G. /ursprache/ (= primitive language) has been freq. used in recent
English philological works.

An original text; the earliest version. Also /attrib./ or as /adj.

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