eldfather

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's grandfather or forefather. archaic,dialectal
    — Elof sat with his eyes closed, still in the grip of the thought that he had just heard his eldfathers, all the way back to Adam, chanting at the table.
  2. One's father-in-law. obsolete

词形变化

eldfathers plural

词汇关系

相关词
elderfather eldmother

词源

From Middle English eldfader, variant of olde fader, from Old English eald fæder (“grandfather, ancestor”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + father. Cognate with Scots eldfader (“grandfather, father-in-law”), Old Frisian aldafeder (“grandfather”).
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