ur-ocean

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

ur-ocean (plural ur-oceans)

  1. A primordial ocean.
    • 2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space:
      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.
  2. Panthalassa.

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