Urschleim

English

Etymology

From German Urschleim, from ur- +‎ Schleim (“slime”), “primordial slime”.

Noun

Urschleim (uncountable)

1. Primordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.

German

Etymology

ur- +‎ Schleim (“slime”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

Urschleim m (strong, genitive Urschleimes or Urschleims, no plural)

1. Urschleim

Declension

Declension of Urschleim [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Urschleim
genitive	eines	des	Urschleimes, Urschleims
dative	einem	dem	Urschleim, Urschleime1
accusative	einen	den	Urschleim

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Urschleim” in Duden online
• chemische Evolution on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de