quatrayle
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Modified form of quadri- + ayle.
Noun
[edit]quatrayle (plural quatrayles)
- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]grandfather of one's great-grandparent
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