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oldefar
Pronunciation: /ˈɔl.dəˌfɑːr/
“oldefar” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its meaning in English:
noun
- great-grandfather; the father of one's grandparent
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German oldevater (“father of the parents; grandfather”), alongside oldervater (“father of the parents; grandfather”). The second element was adapted to Norwegian far (“father”), while the first element became the kinship prefix olde-. The Middle Low German term originally denoted a grandfather; in Norwegian, the meaning later shifted one generation further back to…
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