† fore-grandsiren.
Scottish. Obsolete. figurative.1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. xviii. 62/2 Frere Martine Lauter your foirgrandschir passed mair cannelie to vorke.
a. A grandfather; = Latin avus.
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mother-fathereOE
eldfatherOE
grandsirec1300
aiela1325
belsirea1325
grandfather1424
belfatherc1440
goodsire?c1450
fore-grandsire1513
gutcher1523
granfer1564
granddaddy1648
grandpapa1680
grandada1699
grandad1764
grandpa?1785
grandpappy1857
grandpop1860
abuelo1876
dada1888
gramp1890
grampy1904
lolo1934
gramps1935
zayde1946
opa1948
opi1988
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vi. 95 The name he bair of his fore grandschir wycht.
b. A great-grandfather; = Latin proavus.
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fore-grandsire1474
besaiel1480
great-grandfathera1513
beayellc1540
first grandsirec1540
grandsire1541
great-grandsire?1541
grandfathera1650
1474 Acta Audit. (1839) 34/2 Þai fand þe said Robertis forgrantsire deit last vest & sesit of þe said landes.
1568 Interlud Droichis Part Play 25 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 316 My foir grandser hecht fyn mackcowll.
c. A great-great-grandfather.
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tresaiel1491
fore-grandsire1541
fore-great-grandfather1693
1541 Books Counc. & Sess. B 18. 44 (Jam.) Be his fader, gudschir, grandshir, and forgrandshir, lardis of Fingiltoun.
1633 Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 64/2 To the forsaids persones..thair fathers guidschirs grandschirs foirgrandschirs [etc.].
d. An ancestor.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun]
elder-fathereOE
fatherOE
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alderOE
eldfatherOE
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belsirea1325
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grandfather1575
ascendant1604
forerunnera1616
ancienter1654
tupuna1845
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 3 Ȝour foir grandscheir godefroid of billon kyng of iherusalem.
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