An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/ur-

by Friedrich Kluge

ur-, prefix, from Middle High German and Old High German ur-; an accented prefix of which er- (Middle High German er-, Old High German ir-) is the unaccented form. In Old High German, ur, ‘out of,’ is met with as a preposition The prefix signifies ‘out of, originally, in the beginning.’ Gothic has us (uz), of which there are no certain cognates in the other Aryan languages.