Re: Ur-books

Subject: Re: Ur-books
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "Jan Henning" <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:30:14 -0500

Jan Henning wrote:
>> Ur was the town where Job lived (as in "The Book of Job" and "the
>> patience
>> of Job"). It's often used in the sense of "the oldest" or "the
>> original"
>> ("ur-man")--almost like "proto-man".
>
> The meaning is described correctly, the etymology isn't (according
to
> Chambers dictionary): "Ur-" is a German prefix meaning "the
> protoypical" or "the oldest". It has been borrowed in this meaning
by
> the English. "Ur-" appears to have common roots with "out".
>

Job lived in Uz.
Abraham was from Ur.


Bonnie Granat
www.granatedit.com







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