"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His patrilineal ancestors were likely a French Catholic family named Barbier who had left France at the time of the French Revolution.
- If someone possesses a surname containing "Der" or "Ter" it usually signifies that this person has a patrilineal ancestor who was a priest.
- Both genetic studies concluded that Somerled's patrilineal ancestors originated in Scandinavia.
- Confucianism, the official religion, was the preserve of an upper-class male elite, and its rituals acknowledged only patrilineal ancestors.
- Ancestral tablets found in Chinese homes only state the names of patrilineal ancestors and their wives.
- Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors.
- This haplogroup contains the patrilineal ancestors of most Europeans and almost all of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
- Bearing the surname indicates that one's patrilineal ancestors were priests in the Temple of Jerusalem.
- Of 211 known European G2bs, 8 are known to have non-Jewish patrilineal ancestors.
- "The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad."
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