"great-" meaning in English

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Prefix

Etymology: From Middle English gret- (“great-”), from gret (“great”). More at great. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|gret-|t=great-}} Middle English gret- (“great-”), {{m|enm|gret|t=great}} gret (“great”), {{m|en|great}} great Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} great-, {{en-prefix}} great-
  1. With familial designations, used to denote a removal of one generation Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Family Synonyms: grand- Translations (removal of one generation): stër- (Albanian), пра- (pra-) (Belarusian), пра- (pra-) (Bulgarian), bes- (Catalan), pra- (Czech), tip- (Danish), pra- (Esperanto), arrière (French), ur- (German), déd- (Hungarian), sean- (Irish), bis- (Italian), pro- (Italian), 왕 (wang-) (Jeju), pra- (Polish), ta- (Portuguese), stră- (Romanian), пра- (pra-) (Russian), пра- [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pra- [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pra- (Slovak), pra- (Slovene), bis- (Spanish), gammel- (Swedish), пра- (pra-) (Ukrainian), hen (english: older generations) (Welsh), gor- (english: younger generations) (Welsh), אור־ (ur-) (Yiddish), עלטער־ (elter-) (english: older generations) (Yiddish)

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          "sense": "removal of one generation",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "removal of one generation",
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          "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "roman": "pra-",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pra-"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "tip-"
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pra-"
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "arrière"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "ur-"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "déd-"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "sean-"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "bis-"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pro-"
    },
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      "code": "jje",
      "lang": "Jeju",
      "roman": "wang-",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "왕"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pra-"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "ta-"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "stră-"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pra-",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "пра-"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "pra-"
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pra-"
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      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "pra-"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "bis-"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "gammel-"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
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      "sense": "removal of one generation",
      "word": "אור־"
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      "word": "עלטער־"
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