Urmutter

German, noun

Urmutter is a German feminine noun meaning “foremother” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Urmütter is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Urmutter”.

What does Urmutter mean in English?

noun

1
feminineforemother

noun

as Urmütter

1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Urmutter

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Urmutter

Urmütter plural
Urmüttern dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Urmutter in German?

Urmutter appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.

Urmutter0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Germanmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).