Word of the Day Ursprache \ OOR-shprah-khuh; German OOR-shprah-khuh \, noun; 1.a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages. Quotes: 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 Kabbalists, Hermetics, Hasidic students of the Torah and the Talmud tried to reconstitute the Old Speech, the Ursprache , from these lost fragments. -- A. S. Byatt, Babel Tower, 1996 Origin: Ursprache came to Enlgish in the 20th century from the German prefix ur- meaning earliest, original and Sprache meaning speech. Dictionary
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