quatrayle

English

Etymology

Modified form of quadri- +‎ ayle.

Noun

quatrayle (plural quatrayles)

1. (rare) A great-great-great-grandfather; the grandfather of the grandfather of one's father.
   • 1880, The New England Register, volume 34, New England Historic Genealogical Society, published 1996, page 433:

     He was the quatrayle of Zaccheus Gould, the New England immigrant.

   • 2012, Oliviu Felecan, Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, page 80:

     This means that two individuals A and B whose most recent common ancestor C is the quatrayle (or great-great-great-grandfather) of the former and the quatrayle of the latter cannot belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain linking A to B contains ten degrees of kinship.

Related terms

• ayle
• besaiel
• tresayle

Translations

grandfather of one's great-grandparent

• Burmese: ဘင် (my) (bhang)
• Czech: praprapradědeček (cs) m
• Finnish: isoisoisoisoisä
• French: quadrisaïeul (fr) m, arrière-arrière-arrière-grand-père (fr) m
• German: Urururgroßvater (de) m
• Hungarian: szépapa (hu)
• Latin: atavus m
• Polish: praprapradziadek m, praprapradziad m
• Portuguese: tetravô (pt) m
• Russian: прапрапрадед (ru) m (praprapraded)
• Serbo-Croatian: navrndeda (sh) m
• Tagalog: lolo sa sakong
• Ukrainian: прапрапрадід m (praprapradid)