great-grandson

See also: great grandson and greatgrandson

English

Alternative forms

• great grandson, greatgrandson

Etymology

From great- +‎ grandson.

Noun

great-grandson (plural great-grandsons)

1. A son of a grandchild.

Usage notes

Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of descent. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandson", "four-greats grandson" or "four-times-great-grandson".

Hypernyms

• great-grandchild

Coordinate terms

• great-granddaughter

Related terms

• great-great-grandson
• grandson
• son

Translations

son of a grandchild

• Asturian: bisñetu (ast) m, bisnietu (ast) m
• Belarusian: пра́ўнук m (práŭnuk)
• Breton: gourvab (br)
• Bulgarian: пра́внук (bg) m (právnuk)
• Catalan: besnét (ca) m, renét (ca) m
• Cebuano: apo sa tuhod
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 息仔 (sak¹ zai²), 曾孫／曾孙 (zang¹ syun¹)

  Mandarin: 曾孫／曾孙 (zh) (zēngsūn), 重孫／重孙 (zh) (chóngsūn), 重孫子／重孙子 (zh) (chóngsūnzi)

  Min Nan: 乾仔孫／干仔孙 (kan-á-sun), 曾孫／曾孙 (cheng-sun), 蝨母仔／虱母仔 (sat-bó-á, sat-bú-á)

• Czech: pravnuk (cs) m
• Esperanto: pranepo (eo)
• Estonian: lapselapselaps
• Finnish: lapsenlapsenlapsi
• French: arrière-petit-fils (fr) m
• German: Urenkel (de) m
• Hebrew: נִין‎ (he) m (nin)
• Hungarian: dédunoka (hu)
• Japanese: ひ孫 (ひいまご, hi-imago), 曾孫 (ja) (そうそん, sōson)
• Javanese: putu buyut
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino:

  Roman: biznyeto m

• Latgalian: prounuks
• Latin: pronepōs m
• Latvian: mazmazdēls
• Lithuanian: provaikaitis, proanūkis
• Macedonian: пра́внук m (právnuk)
• Malay: cicit lelaki, cicit (ms), anak cucu (ms), cucu anak
• Manx: aa-oe m
• Norman: arriéthe-pétit-fis m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oldesønn m

  Nynorsk: oldeson m

• Polish: prawnuk (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisneto (pt) m
• Romanian: strănepot (ro) m
• Russian: пра́внук (ru) m (právnuk)
• Scottish Gaelic: iar-ogha m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̀унук m

  Roman: pràunuk (sh) m

• Slovak: pravnuk m
• Slovene: pravnuk (sl) m
• Spanish: bisnieto (es) m
• Swedish: barnbarnsbarn (sv) n
• Tagalog: apo sa tuhod
• Telugu: ప్రపౌత్రుడు (te) (prapautruḍu)
• Ukrainian: пра́внук (uk) m (právnuk)
• Vietnamese: chắt (vi)
• Welsh: gorwyr m