The word Urheimat is a German word (of the Uralic linguistic family of languages) which is a compound of Ur- "primitive, original" and Heimat "home, homeland" and is a linguistic term that denotes the homeland of the speakers of a proto-language.
Ur is the "original homeland" of Semitic Abraham.
The word Ur, in both a Uralic and a Semitic language, means "original".
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Urheimat and Ur - Original Homelands
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