urform noun1 •The (real or idealised) version of a transmissible cultural element, such as a word, language, religion, ideology, folktale, melody, meme, etc., which is taken to be the original form from which all other versions have deviated.Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed. — 2003 formsurforms
