köken: From Middle High German an, ane, from Old High German ano, from Proto-Germanic *anô (“forefather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“ancestor”). Cognate with Latin anus.
antecedent (thing that precedes; prior fact, background fact) · antecedent (referent of a word, esp. of a pronoun) · antecedent (condition part of a proposition)
çekim: çoğul antecedenten
köken: Borrowed from French antécédent, from Latin antecēdēns (“go before”), from antecēdere (“to go or come before”).
ancestral (relating to ancestors) · archaic (extremely old)
çekim: çoğul ancestrais
köken: From the Old French adjective ancestrel, from the noun ancestre (“ancestor”), from Late Latin antecessor (“predecessor”), an agent noun from the past participle stem of Latin antecedere (“to proceed”), from the prefix ante- with the infinitive cedere (“to go”), the former from Proto-Italic *kezdō (“to avoid or to go away”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to yield or to go”).