Urvater
German, noun
Urvater is spelled U-R-V-A-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 102,515th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urvater is a German masculine noun meaning “ancestor, progenitor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Urväter is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Urvater”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “männlicher Begründer eines Geschlechts, einer Sippe, eines Stammes oder eines Volkes von Menschen”.
What does Urvater mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineancestor, progenitor
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Urvater
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. männlicher Begründer eines Geschlechts, einer Sippe, eines Stammes oder eines Volkes von Menschen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Urvater
- Urvaters genitive
- Urväter plural
- Urvätern dative definite plural
- Urmutter feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Urvater in German?
Urvater appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).