eald fæder
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Old Saxon aldfader.
Noun[edit]
Usage notes[edit]
- The word for "great grandfather" is þridda fæder (literally “third father”), "great-great grandfather" is fēorþa fæder (literally “fourth father”), and so on.
Declension[edit]
See the declensions of eald and fæder.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: olde fader, eldfader
Categories:
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂-
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English multiword terms
- Old English masculine nouns
- ang:Male family members
- ang:Family members