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Date: 2014-09-01 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: Ursprache: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Sep. 1, 2014

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 Origin Ursprache came to Enlgish in the 20th century from the German prefix ur- meaning "earliest, original" and Sprache meaning "speech."

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