Ur

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Ultimately from Sumerian 𒋀𒀕𒆠 (Urim).

Ur

1. An ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq; modern Tell el-Muqayyar.

• Royal Game of Ur

From German Urkontinent (“original continent”), taking the morpheme ur- (“original”).

Ur

1. (geology) A hypothetical early supercontinent which may have existed on Earth during the Archaean eon (3.1 billion years ago).

• Ru.

18th century, learned borrowing from Middle High German ūr(e), itself from Old High German ūro, from Proto-West Germanic *ūr. Displaced inherited Auer, which survives in the compound Auerochse.

• IPA^(key): /uːr/, [ʔu(ː)ɐ̯]

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• Homophone: Uhr

Ur m (strong, genitive Ures or Urs, plural Ure)

1. (higher register) synonym of Auerochse (“aurochs”)

• Auerochse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Ur” in Duden online
• “Ur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /uːɾ/

From Old Saxon ōra, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.

• Uhr, Or

Ur n (plural Uren)

1. Mecklenburgisch and Western Pomeranian form of Or (“ear”)

From Proto-Germanic *ūraz.

Ur n (plural Urs)

1. aurochs

Ur f

1. (historical) Ur