Noun: fore-elder
| Singular | fore-elder |
| Plural | fore-elders |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like fore-elder
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English foreldre, from fore- (“fore-”) + eldre (“elder, ancestor”); equivalent to fore- + elder. Compare Old Norse foreldrar (“fore-elders”, plural), whence Danish forældre (“parents”), Swedish föräldrar (“parents”). Compare also Dutch voorouder (“ancestor”), German Voreltern (“ancestors”). See: Middle English Nouns '
foreldre', Old Norse Nouns '
foreldrar', Danish Nouns '
forældre', Dutch Nouns '
voorouder', German Nouns '
Voreltern'.