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.
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”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Latin ante- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós Proto-Italic *gnātos Latin gnātus Latin nātus Latin antenātuslbor. Polish antenat Learned borrowing from Latin antenātus.
köken: From Előd, one of the seven Hungarian tribe leaders in 895. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
Feminine counterpart to avus (“grandfather”) formed with *-éh₂, compare Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awō, “grandmother”), although conceivably a secondary formation. Compare avia.