ur-ocean
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- + ocean.
Noun
[edit]- A primordial ocean.
- 2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space:
- This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.
- Panthalassa.