ancestral
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.
Related words
- ancestralism
- ancestrality
- nonancestral
- pseudoancestral
- transancestral
- ancestrally
- ancestral chart
- ancestral hall
- ancestral name
- Ancestral Puebloan
- ancestral shrine
- ancestral temple
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "ancestrel".
Where this comes from
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