ur-ocean

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Frequency: 3.84 in modern English

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"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."

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

ur-oceans (plural)

ur-continent

ur-continent

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