Alternative forms
edit
Etymology
edit
From great- + grandparent.
great-grandparent (plural great-grandparents)
- A parent of a grandparent; a grandparent of a parent.
Usage notes
edit
Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of ancestry. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandparent", "four-greats grandparent" or "four-times-great-grandparent".
Derived terms
edit
Translations
edit
parent of a grandparent
- Asturian: bisgüelu (ast) m, bisgüela (ast) f
- Catalan: besàvia (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 曾祖父 (zh) (zēngzǔfù) (great-grandfather), 曾祖母 (zh) (zēngzǔmǔ) (great-grandmother)
- Dutch: overgrootouder (nl) m
- Esperanto: prageavo, gepraavo
- Finnish: isoisovanhempi
- French: arrière-grand-parent (fr), bisaïeul (fr)
- Galician: bisavó (gl) m, bisavoa (gl) f
- German: Urgroßelternteil m, Urgroßeltern (de) pl (plural only), Urgroßvater (de) m (great-grandfather), Urgroßmutter (de) f (great-grandmother)
- Hungarian: dédszülő (hu)
- Icelandic: langafi (is) m (great-grandfather), langamma (is) f (great-grandmother)
- Ido: preavo (io)
- Indonesian: moyang (id)
- Italian: bisnonno (it) m
- Japanese: 曾祖父 (ja) (hījiji, sōsofu) (great-grandfather), 曾祖母 (ja) (hībaba, sōsobo) (great-grandmother)
- Macedonian: пра́дедо m (prádedo), пра́баба f (prábaba)
- Malay: moyang (ms), ibu bapa datuk nenek
- Montana Salish: t'ot'ó
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oldeforelder m
- Nynorsk: oldeforelder m
- Polish: pradziadkowie (pl) m pl
- Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
- Romanian: străbunic (ro) m, străbunică (ro) f
- Russian: пра́дед (ru) m (práded), праде́душка (ru) m (pradéduška) (great-grandfather), праба́бка (ru) f (prabábka), праба́бушка (ru) f (prabábuška) (great-grandmother)
- Slovak: praded m, pradedo m
- Spanish: bisabuelo (es) m, bisabuela (es) f
- Sranan Tongo: awo
- Thai: ทวด (th) (tûuat)
- Welsh: hen daid m, hen dad-cu m, hen nain f, hen fam-gu f
- Yiddish: אורעלטערן pl (ureltern)
|
See also
edit
