eldmother

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law. archaic,dialectal
    — Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke.

词形变化

eldmothers plural eldermother alternative

词源

From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldemōder.
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