quatrayle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

A great-great-great-grandfather; the grandfather of the grandfather of one's father.

"He was the quatrayle of Zaccheus Gould, the New England immigrant."
"This means that two individuals A and B whose most recent common ancestor C is the quatrayle (or great-great-great-grandfather) of the former and the quatrayle of the latter cannot belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain linking A to B contains ten degrees of kinship."

Modified form of quadri- + ayle.

quatrayles (plural)

ayle besaiel tresayle

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