Meaning of ur-word | Babel Free

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An original or primal word; a protoword.

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“As "neither linguistically conceived experience⟳ nor speech-less experience⟳," but rather as "the experience⟳ of the removal of the word" and in unity with the experience⟳ of the birth of the word," the "Ur-word" would correspond accordingly to the "Ur-sentence", [...]”

“According to Hillis Miller, Hopkins supposed that, by a continuous process⟳ of subdivision, all words descend from a first original, an ur-word.”

“Enowning, enabling saying (showing), makes way in clearing and opening ways for gathering-thinging. Heidegger in another work⟳ calls on an Ur-word from the East, bringing it into play⟳ with the thought of enowning.”

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