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ur-ancestor

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From ur- +‎ ancestor.

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ur-ancestor (plural ur-ancestors)

  1. An original ancestor; proto-ancestor.
    • 2003, Confucius, translated by Edward Slingerland, Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, translation of original in Old Chinese:
      Often the ancestors were asked to intercede with the being who wielded the greatest power of all over the Shang people, the ur-ancestor known as the “Lord on High” (shangdi).
    • 2006, Lesley Brill, Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema:
      In both, the first awareness of other creatures by the ur-ancestor (and therefore the first true self-consciousness) arrives through a feeling of a crowd on the skin.
    • 2011, Dr. Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds:
      These two lineages converged somewhere in the late Paleozoic or early Triassic in a common “Ur-ancestor.”

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