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
Saturday, June 30, 2012
More on My Asian Genomic Neighbors
In follow-up to an earlier post (My Position Among (HGDP) Asian Populations By Principal Component Analysis Using 1000 SNP's), I've added links which provide some detail as to the peoples who are my genomic neighbors on the PCA analysis graphs for the continent of Asia: Burusho, Sindhi, Brahui, Makrani, Balochi and Pathan. These peoples are Pakistani-Iranian tribes of ancient the Dravidian, Persian and Indus Valley Civilizations. The Pathans, also known as the Pashtuns, are thought to be one of the "Lost Tribes" of Israel. The ancient homeland of the ancient Dravidians is postulated to be the same ancient homeland of many Indo-European peoples, called Urheimat. Urheimat is strikingly similar to the biblical city of Ur, I think. Urheimat is a German compound of Ur- "primitive, original" and Heimat "home, homeland".