quatrayle

Definitions

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

rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level