forebear

forebear englannista suomeksi

1. esi-isä

forebear englanniksi

1. An ancestor.

(hyper)

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1885|author=Richard F. Burton|title=The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night|section=Night 566

3. 1906 2004, ''Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville,'' Ethel Wedgwood tr.

Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold (..)

4. 1936 2004, Raymond William Firth, ''We the Tikopia'' http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Eiji-EnuhXUC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&sig=aB2VV0fcWv6lkQPQatQQbDhlm_8

One does not take one’s family name therefrom, and again the position of the mother in that group is determined through her father and his male forbears in turn; this too is a patrilineal group.

5. (quote-journal)

6. (quote-text)

7. {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-14|author=Jonathan Freedland

8. (obsolete spelling of).