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1. My ancestor was a Fraser from Cromarty, who very likely cleared in the Black Isle.
2. An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on).
3. The ancestor is very seldom known to us directly, since most languages have a very short recorded history.
4. My ancestor was discharged from the British navy to his home in Norfolk, Virginia in 1710.
5. Their ancestor was one Richard Ladde, grandfather of the Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward, who changed his name to Montagu in about 1447.

Proto-Indo-Iranian

1. Together with the other Indo-Iranian languages, the Iranian languages are descended from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-Iranian.

Animists

1. The Sasak peoples were agriculturalists and animists who practised ancestor and spirit worship.

Whole Family Spitāma

1. Zoroaster’s great-grandfather Haēchataspa was the ancestor of the whole family Spitāma, for which reason Zoroaster usually bears the surname Spitāma.

Proto-Oceanic

1. The common ancestor which is reconstructed for this group of languages is called Proto-Oceanic (abbr.
2. Proto-Oceanic (POc) is the ancestor of some 450 Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
3. Proto-Oceanic is itself an Austronesian language, and therefore a descendant of Proto-Austronesian PAN, the common ancestor of Austronesian languages.

Surviving Schools Regard

1. The sixth and last patriarch, Huineng (638–713), was one of the giants of Zen history, and all surviving schools regard him as their ancestor.

Carduchi

1. A people such as the Guti (Kurti), Mede, (Mard) Carduchi, (Gordyene), Adiabene, Zila and Khaldi signify not the ancestor of the Kurds but only one ancestor.
2. Mede, Mard, Carduchi, Gordyene, Adianbene, Zila and Khaldi signify not the ancestor of the Kurds but only an ancestor.
3. A people such as the Guti (Kurti), Mede, Mard, Carduchi(Gordyaei), Adiabene, Zila and Khaldi signify not the ancestor of the Kurds but only one ancestor.

Nominal Ancestor

1. It descends from Old Persian and is the nominal ancestor of Modern Persian.

San-Ku-Chu

1. The Chinese methods were a combination of techniques with empty hands and with weapons like the San-Ku-Chu, ancestor of the Sai.

Hypothetical Ancestor

1. It means the hypothetical ancestor of the Romance languages ("Proto-Romance").

Freyr

1. Freyr was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house.
2. Rigsthula, 46 etc.), which I doubt, it has reference to the late tradition that Freyr, and not Othin, was the ancestor of the Volsungs (cf.

Proto Oceanic

1. This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family.

Peter Von Westerberg

1. For example, if you trace every ancestor in the 5th generation of Dorem Display, you will find every dog goes back to Peter Von Westerberg.

Hellen

1. Hellen (Greek) Son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only survivors of the deluge; ancestor of the Hellenic race.
2. He was the son of Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenes, the ancient Greek peoples.

Unattested

1. The Proto-Austronesian language is the unattested, reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families.

Internet Hosts

1. Many Internet hosts run BSD software, and it is the ancestor of many commercial UNIX implementations.

Bilaterians

1. All bilaterians are thought to have descended from a common ancestor that appeared early in the Cambrian period, 550-600 million years ago.
2. Concerning the evolutionary picture, we have shown that the diversity of nuclear receptor genes was already well established in the ancestor of bilaterians.

Single Common Ancestor

1. A clade is a taxonomic group of organisms consisting of a single common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor.
2. Some historical linguists presume that all languages go back to a single common ancestor.

Divine Ancestor

1. According to legend, Saturn founded the utopian kingdom of Atlantis and became the divine ancestor of all earthly patriarchs and kings.
2. First woman and divine ancestor, wife of Tiki.

Ancestor Veneration

1. Ancestor worship (拜祖), also ancestor veneration (敬祖), is a religious practice based on the belief that one's ancestors possess supernatural powers.

Original Ancestor

1. Those who claimed descent in a line of first-born males from an original ancestor were accorded the highest rank in Maori society.

First Ancestor

1. On the Emperor making inquiry of him, he answered and said: " Thy servant is the son of Nihemotsu." He it is who was the first ancestor of the U-kahi of Ata.

Immediate Ancestor

1. It is Proto Oceanic, the immediate ancestor of the Oceanic languages, that is associated with an early phase of the Lapita Cultural Complex.
2. Proto Oceanic (POc) is the immediate ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.

Mythical Ancestor

1. Tuisco, the son of Mannus was the mythical ancestor of the Germanic peoples and referred to in Tacitus Germania.
2. Ancient Greek mythology provides them with a mythical ancestor, named Thrax, son of the war-god Ares, who was said to reside in Thrace.
3. It has also been proposed that Achaemenes could be only a "mythical ancestor of the Persian royal house".

Legendary Ancestor

1. Medus, Aegeus ' only other son (by Medea of Colchis), had been exiled in Asia and would become legendary ancestor to the Medes.
2. Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz was one of the three sons of Mannus and the legendary ancestor of the Ingaevones.

Great Ancestor

1. Among the Romans, Ennius was the great ancestor and father of Latin literature.

Single Ancestor

1. They were staggered that all these languages were descended from a single ancestor.
2. It is a blood-line community, united by a single ancestor, with food or moral prohibitions, family Vodun cults and divinities to which the family is loyal.
3. The notion that all whales evolved from a single ancestor is not in dispute.

Possible Ancestor

1. Proconsul africanus is a possible ancestor of both great and lesser apes, and humans.
2. San-Ku-Chu is a possible ancestor of the saï.
3. Also in the Triassic was Pseudosuchia, possible ancestor of Archaeopteryx.

Eponymous Ancestor

1. The eponymous ancestor of the Hellenes is Hellen 1, son either of Deucalion 1 (the man who survived the Flood), or of Zeus and Pyrrha 1.
2. Darius traced his own descent from Achæmenes, the eponymous ancestor of the Achæmenids, Darius' own royal house.

Similarity

1. The greater the similarity, the more recently the organisms are considered to have diverged from a common ancestor.

Synonym

1. Japheth is traditionally seen as the ancestor of Europeans, as well as some more eastern nations; thus Japhetic has been used as a synonym for Caucasians.
2. Biological groups should include the common ancestor and all of its descendants, but when defined in this way, Prosobranchia becomes a synonym of Gastropoda.

Julius Caesar

1. This revolt was led by the aforementioned Lucius Junius Brutus, an ancestor of the Marcus Brutus who conspired to kill Julius Caesar almost 500 years later.
2. The legend said that Aeneas' son Julus (the legendary ancestor of Julius Caesar) founded the city of Alba Longa.

Cyprus

1. Stephen of Blois was killed during this battle, as was Hugh VI of Lusignan, ancestor of the future Lusignan dynasty of Jerusalem and Cyprus.

Holy Land

1. An ancestor of the later Lusignan dynasty in the Holy Land, Hugh of Lusignan, was killed in the east during the Crusade of 1101.

Surname

1. But Thomas ap Gwilim Jenkin, called the fourth son, is ancestor of all those who bore the surname of Herbert.

Anthropology

1. The ancestor of today's giant panda really was a pygmy giant panda, says Russell Ciochon, UI professor of anthropology.

Goths

1. Nennius reports that a Gothus was the ancestor of the Goths.

Cook Islands

1. Oro is also the name of the ancestor of the Rarotongan people of the Cook Islands.

Croatia

1. The cravat, an ancestor of the necktie and bow tie, evolved from scarves of this sort in Croatia.

Lance

1. They may be seen as the ancestor of such weapons as the lance, the halberd, the naginata and the pike.

Creator

1. Slytherin, Salazar - One of the founders of Hogwarts; creator of the Chamber of Secrets; ancestor of Tom Riddle.

Tane

1. Tane declares war on Atea and kills him with the lightning bolts of Fatu-tiri, his ancestor).

First Man

1. Tiki The first man, the divine ancestor of the Polynesians.
2. Wakea was the first man and the ancestor of the Polynesians.
3. The Greek writers claimed that Pelasgus, the great ancestor of the Pelasgians was the first man.

Monophyletic Group

1. The modern velvet worms form a monophyletic group, incorporating all the descendants of their common ancestor.
2. The ascomycetes are a monophyletic group, i.e., all of its associates trace aback to one accepted ancestor.

Fungi

1. The Fungi are a monophyletic group, meaning all varieties of fungi come from a common ancestor.
2. This distribution seems to suggest that eukaryotic antizyme was present in the last common ancestor of all fungi, protists and animals.

Inherited

1. This skill was inherited from his ancestor, Salazar Slytherin.
2. B. petrii, B. bronchiseptica and B. avium share 2,049 CDSs, which represent the Bordetella core gene set, which was likely inherited from a common ancestor.
3. His strength was probably inherited from his ancestor Cymburgis of Masovia.

Grandfather

1. Both his father and grandfather had served the Khan, while his ancestor is Guo Ziyi, a famed general of the Tang Dynasty.

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