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{
"word": "descendant"
},
{
"word": "afterbear"
}
],
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"word": "ancestor spirit"
},
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"word": "ancestor worship"
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{
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"word": "ancestry"
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"word": "apical ancestor"
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"word": "cenancestor"
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"word": "common ancestor"
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"word": "grandcestor"
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{
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"word": "last universal ancestor"
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"word": "proto-ancestor"
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"word": "trancestor"
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},
"expansion": "Middle English ancestre",
"name": "der"
},
{
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},
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{
"args": {
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},
"expansion": "Old French ancestre",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ancêtre"
},
"expansion": "ancêtre",
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},
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"2": "la",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
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"2": "antecessor",
"3": "",
"4": "one who goes before"
},
"expansion": "antecessor (“one who goes before”)",
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"2": "fro",
"3": "ancessor"
},
"expansion": "Old French ancessor",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "antecessōrem"
},
"expansion": "antecessōrem",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "antecessor"
},
"expansion": "antecessor",
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},
{
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"2": "antecēdō",
"3": "-tor",
"gloss1": "to go before",
"gloss2": "-er",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”)",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ante",
"3": "cēdō",
"gloss1": "before",
"gloss2": "to go",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cede"
},
"expansion": "cede",
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},
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"2": "antecessor",
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},
"expansion": "antecessor",
"name": "doublet"
}
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"etymology_text": "Middle English ancestre, auncestre, ancessour; the first forms from Old French ancestre (modern French ancêtre), from the Latin nominative antecessor (“one who goes before”); the last form from Old French ancessor, from Latin antecessōrem, accusative of antecessor, from antecēdō (“to go before”) + -tor (“-er”), from ante- (“before”) + cēdō (“to go”). See cede, and compare with antecessor.",
"forms": [
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"form": "ancestors",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"expansion": "ancestor (plural ancestors)",
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"word": "family"
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"word": "predecessor"
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"word": "relative"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"an‧ces‧tor"
],
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"word": "parent"
},
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"word": "father"
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"word": "mother"
},
{
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"word": "grandparent"
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"word": "grandfather"
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"word": "grandmother"
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "great-grandparent"
},
{
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"word": "great-grandfather"
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"word": "great-grandmother"
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"word": "great-great-grandparent"
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"word": "great-great-grandfather"
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"word": "great-great-grandmother"
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"name": "Family members",
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"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Turkic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845",
"text": "Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather."
],
"id": "en-ancestor-en-noun-EiKI0eNL",
"links": [
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"progenitor",
"progenitor"
],
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"forefather",
"forefather"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "52 2 27 15 4",
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "forebear"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 27 15 4",
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "fore-elder"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 27 15 4",
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "forefather"
}
],
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"code": "ace",
"lang": "Acehnese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "indatu"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "voorouer"
},
{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "salaf",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سَلَف"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxni",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "նախնի"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxahayr",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "նախահայր"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ata-baba"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "əcdad"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ata-baba",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ата-баба"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pródak",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "про́дак"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gourdad"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "praotéc",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "праоте́ц"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prarodítel",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прароди́тел"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predšestvenik",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "предшественик"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avantpassat"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestre"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antecessor"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ccc",
"lang": "Chamicuro",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ka'nil sheye"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "jou² sin¹",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǔxiān",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "hendas"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ecdat"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "předek"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "stamfader"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voorouder"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "praulo"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esivanem"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tɔgbui"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "sɔa"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "yaaba"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfaðir"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esi-isä"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esivanhempi"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ancêtre"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "devanceiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antergo"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenado"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antecesor"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣inaṗari",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "წინაპარი"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorfahr"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorfahrin"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ahn"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ahne"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahne"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahnin"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Urahn"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Urahne"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Urahne"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stammvater"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Stammmutter"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Familiengründer"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "airiza",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌶𐌰"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "propátoras",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "προπάτορας"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "genétēs",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γενέτης"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pūrvaj",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पूर्वज"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ős"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "előd"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "felmenő"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ancestro"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "leluhur"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "moyang"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsear"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsearach"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antenato"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ascendente"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avo"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abiatico"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitore"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"alt": "せんぞ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "senzo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "先祖"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"alt": "ぞせん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"alt": "祖上",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "josang",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "조상"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"alt": "先祖",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seonjo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "선조"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "با و باپیر"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ban pha bu lut",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ບັນພະບຸລຸດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ban pha bū lut",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ບັນພະບູລຸດ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitor"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "progenitrix"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avus"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ava"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sencis"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sence"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предок"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "nenek moyang"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "leluhur"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "swb",
"lang": "Maore Comorian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"class-1",
"class-2"
],
"word": "mudzaɗe"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kohika"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kahika"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "whātua"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tīpuna"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tūpuna"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kauwheke"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "heinga"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "pūtake"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mr",
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"roman": "pūrvaj",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पूर्वज"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "mos",
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"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "yaaba"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "anchêtre"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfar"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nn",
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancessor"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ieldra"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "otk",
"lang": "Old Turkic",
"roman": "apa",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "𐰯𐰀"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Väavoda"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przodek"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "wstępny"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenat"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"literary"
],
"word": "antenatka"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestral"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antepassado"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predecesor"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strămoș"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "străbun"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prarodítelʹ",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прароди́тель"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "praotéc",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "праоте́ц"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinnsear"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "предак"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "праотац"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "претка"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "предкиња"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "прамајка"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "прародитељ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "predak"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "praotac"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pretka"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "predkinja"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pramajka"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "praroditelj"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "mutun mittō",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "මුතුන් මිත්තෝ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predok"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "prédnik"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prédnica"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestro"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antepasado"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "awo"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "karuhun"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"class-1",
"class-2"
],
"word": "mhenga"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förfader"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ban-pá-bù-rùt",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "บรรพบุรุษ"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "บรรพชน"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ต้นตระกูล"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "บรรพสตรี"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tambaran"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tumbuna"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ata"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "práščurka",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пра́щурка"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"alt": "祖先",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tổ tiên"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "büröletan"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hibüröletan"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jibüröletan"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "cyndad"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "hynafiad"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "cyndadau"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 1 20 8 2",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "ov",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אָבֿ"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "37 63 0 0 0 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Biology",
"orig": "en:Biology",
"parents": [
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"text": "This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"An earlier type; a progenitor"
],
"id": "en-ancestor-en-noun-6tLYzKSy",
"links": [
[
"progenitor",
"progenitor"
]
],
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{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predšéstvenik",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предше́ственик"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voorloper"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "esi-isä"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "Vorläufer"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorgänger"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "ős"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "előd"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsear"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsearach"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"alt": "ぞせん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"alt": "前身",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeonsin",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "전신"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 89 1 6 1",
"alt": "原型",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "forebear"
},
{
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "fore-elder"
},
{
"sense": "person from whom one is descended",
"word": "forefather"
},
{
"sense": "previous fulfiller of a role or duty",
"word": "predecessor"
},
{
"sense": "originating word",
"word": "reflex"
},
{
"sense": "originating word",
"word": "source"
},
{
"sense": "originating word",
"word": "origin"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "ancestour"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "auncestor"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "auncestour"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "ancestor"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "antecedent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "ascendant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "ascendent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "forerunner"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ancestor",
"word": "progenitor"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ace",
"lang": "Acehnese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "indatu"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "voorouer"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "salaf",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سَلَف"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxni",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "նախնի"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxahayr",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "նախահայր"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ata-baba"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "əcdad"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "ata-baba",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ата-баба"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pródak",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "про́дак"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gourdad"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "praotéc",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "праоте́ц"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prarodítel",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прароди́тел"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predšestvenik",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "предшественик"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avantpassat"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestre"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antecessor"
},
{
"code": "ccc",
"lang": "Chamicuro",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ka'nil sheye"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "jou² sin¹",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǔxiān",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "hendas"
},
{
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ecdat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "předek"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "stamfader"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voorouder"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "praulo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esivanem"
},
{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tɔgbui"
},
{
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "sɔa"
},
{
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "yaaba"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfaðir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esi-isä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "esivanhempi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ancêtre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "devanceiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antergo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenado"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antecesor"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "c̣inaṗari",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "წინაპარი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorfahr"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorfahrin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ahn"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahnin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Urahn"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Urahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Urahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stammvater"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Stammmutter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Familiengründer"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "airiza",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌶𐌰"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "propátoras",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "προπάτορας"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "genétēs",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γενέτης"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pūrvaj",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पूर्वज"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ős"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "előd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "felmenő"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ancestro"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "leluhur"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "moyang"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsear"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsearach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antenato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ascendente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "abiatico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitore"
},
{
"alt": "せんぞ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "senzo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "先祖"
},
{
"alt": "ぞせん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"alt": "祖上",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "josang",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "조상"
},
{
"alt": "先祖",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seonjo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "선조"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "ba û bapîr",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "با و باپیر"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ban pha bu lut",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ບັນພະບຸລຸດ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ban pha bū lut",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ບັນພະບູລຸດ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "progenitrix"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ava"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sencis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sence"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "predok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предок"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "nenek moyang"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "leluhur"
},
{
"code": "swb",
"lang": "Maore Comorian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"class-1",
"class-2"
],
"word": "mudzaɗe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kohika"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kahika"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "whātua"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tīpuna"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tūpuna"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "kauwheke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "heinga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "pūtake"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "pūrvaj",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "पूर्वज"
},
{
"code": "mos",
"lang": "Moore",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "yaaba"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "anchêtre"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"english": "old",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stamfar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancessor"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ieldra"
},
{
"code": "otk",
"lang": "Old Turkic",
"roman": "apa",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "𐰯𐰀"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Väavoda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przodek"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "wstępny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "antenat"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"literary"
],
"word": "antenatka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestral"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antepassado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predecesor"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "strămoș"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "străbun"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prarodítelʹ",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прароди́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "praotéc",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "праоте́ц"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinnsear"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "предак"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "праотац"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "претка"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "предкиња"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "sh",
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "sh",
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "praotac"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pretka"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pramajka"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "praroditelj"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "mutun mittō",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "මුතුන් මිත්තෝ"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predok"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "prédnik"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prédnica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "antepasado"
},
{
"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "awo"
},
{
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "karuhun"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"class-1",
"class-2"
],
"word": "mhenga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förfader"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ban-pá-bù-rùt",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "บรรพบุรุษ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "บรรพชน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ต้นตระกูล"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "บรรพสตรี"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tambaran"
},
{
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tumbuna"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "ata"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "práščur",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пра́щур"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "práščurka",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пра́щурка"
},
{
"alt": "祖先",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "tổ tiên"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "büröletan"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hibüröletan"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jibüröletan"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "cyndad"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"word": "hynafiad"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "cyndadau"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "ov",
"sense": "one from whom a person is descended",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אָבֿ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predšéstvenik",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предше́ственик"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "voorloper"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "esi-isä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "Vorläufer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorgänger"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prógonos",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πρόγονος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "ős"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "előd"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsear"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sinsearach"
},
{
"alt": "ぞせん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sosen",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "祖先"
},
{
"alt": "前身",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeonsin",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "전신"
},
{
"alt": "原型",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "wonhyeong",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"word": "원형"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "progenitor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "progenitrix"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sencis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sence"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"english": "old",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "forfader"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ancestral"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predšéstvennik",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "предше́ственник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prédok",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пре́док"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predok"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "an earlier type",
"tags": [
"animate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "prédnik"
},
{
"alt": "ごげん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gogen",
"sense": "a word of origin",
"word": "語源"
}
],
"word": "ancestor"
}
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "one who goes before"
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"1": "en",
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"1": "la",
"2": "antecessōrem"
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{
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"singular",
"third-person"
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{
"form": "ancestoring",
"tags": [
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{
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"past"
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights, page 9",
"text": "Her own grandfather had been a Virginian, a descendant of Pocahontas, of course, Pocahontas having been created by Divine Providence for the specific purpose of ancestoring Virginians.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1942, William Faulkner, “The Bear”, in Go down, Moses: and other stories, page 281",
"text": "But he could have completed it: Lucas Quintus Carothers McCaslin Beauchamp. Last surviving sone and child of Tomey's Terrel and Tennie Beauchamp. March 17, 1874 except that there was no need: not Lucius Quintus &c &c &c, but Lucas Quintus, not refusing to be called Lucius, because he simply eliminated that word from the name; not denying, declining the name itself, because he used three quarters of it; but simply taking the name and changing, altering it, making it no longer the white man's but his own , by himself composed, himself selfprogenitive and nominate, by himself ancestored, as, for all the old ledgers recorded to the contrary, old Carothers himself was",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Richard T. Hull, Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1951-1960",
"text": "The human population of this earth is descended from a most adaptable population, that which originated living matter and then proceeded through continuous specific change to become the population that ancestored man.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, page 171",
"text": "How, that is, could ancestoring Elizabeth become a relational property of James's, when there was, when Elizabeth began to exist, no James to have this property?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To be an ancestor of."
],
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"(transitive) To be an ancestor of."
],
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]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"word": "ancestour"
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{
"tags": [
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],
"word": "auncestor"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "auncestour"
}
],
"word": "ancestor"
}
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