ur-ocean

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- +‎ ocean.

Noun

ur-ocean (plural ur-oceans)

1. 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.

2. Panthalassa.

See also

• ur-continent

Anagrams

• cerauno-