an old man · a venerated man enjoying communal authority; elder, patriarch, leader of the tribe, adviser · leader of the family, respected man in the family
çekim: çoğul ağsaqqallar · tamlayan ağsaqqalın
köken: Bahuvrihi compound of ağ (“white”) + saqqal (“beard”).
köken: Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qart, “old man”), Kumyk къарт (qart, “old”). Related to qarï "old" (Old Turkic [script needed] (qarï, “old”), Southern Altai кары (karï, “old”). Perhaps both are derived from a verb *qar- "get old".
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese avoo, from Vulgar Latin *av(i)olum, ultimately from Latin avus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather”). Cognate with Spanish abuelo.
grandfather, grandpa, old man · one of the mummers in a Malánka group at New Year's · a person who pours wax/visk for healing purposes (віск зливати (visk zlyvaty))
paternal grandfather · respectful address for an older man · bully
çekim: çoğul दादाओं
köken: Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *दाद्द (dādda) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from onomatopoeic nursery reduplication. Cognate with Assamese দাদা (dada), Bengali দাদা (dada), Gujarati દાદો (dādo), Marathi दादा (dādā), Nepali दाइ (dāi), and Punjabi ਦਾਦਾ (dādā). Compare Sanskrit तात (tātá, “a father; a term of affection to a junior or senior”).