Etymology

equiprimordial

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Today it means: Existing together as equally fundamental ab initio; coöriginal. Full definition →

German gleichursprünglich
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  1. German · calque ofgleichursprünglich
  2. English todayequiprimordial

Coined by John Macquarrie in his 1960 The Scope of Demythologizing as equi- + primordial, translating Martin Heidegger’s German gleichursprünglich.

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