great-grandparent

See also: great grandparent

English

Etymology

Noun

great-grandparent (plural great-grandparents)

A parent of a grandparent.

Usage notes

Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of ancestry. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandparent", "four-greats grandparent" or "four-times-great-grandparent".

Derived terms

great-grandparenthood

Translations

parent of a grandparent

Asturian: bisgüelu (ast) m, bisgüela (ast) f
Catalan: besàvia (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曾祖父 (zh) (zēngzǔfù) (great-grandfather), 曾祖母 (zh) (zēngzǔmǔ) (great-grandmother)
Dutch: overgrootouder (nl) m
Esperanto: prageavo, gepraavo
Finnish: isoisovanhempi
French: arrière-grand-parent (fr), bisaïeul (fr)
Galician: bisavó (gl) m, bisavoa (gl) f
German: Urgroßelternteil m, Urgroßeltern (de) pl (plural only), Urgroßvater (de) m (great-grandfather), Urgroßmutter (de) f (great-grandmother)
Hungarian: dédszülő (hu)
Icelandic: langafi (is) m (great-grandfather), langamma (is) f (great-grandmother)
Ido: preavo (io)
Indonesian: moyang (id)
Italian: bisnonno (it) m

Japanese: 曾祖父 (ja) (そうそふ, sōsofu) (father of a grandparent), 曾祖父 (ja) (そうそぼ, sōsobo) (mother of a grandparent)
Macedonian: пра́дедо m (prádedo), пра́баба f (prábaba)
Malay: moyang, ibu bapa datuk nenek
Montana Salish: t'ot'ó
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oldeforelder m

Nynorsk: oldeforelder m
Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
Romanian: străbunici m pl
Russian: пра́дед (ru) m (práded), праде́душка (ru) m (pradéduška) (great-grandfather), праба́бка (ru) f (prabábka), праба́бушка (ru) f (prabábuška) (great-grandmother)
Spanish: bisabuelo (es) m, bisabuela (es) f
Thai: ทวด (th) (tûuat)
Welsh: hen daid m, hen dad-cu m, hen nain f, hen fam-gu f
Yiddish: אורעלטערן‎ pl (ureltern)