our greatest grandfather

here are some words that i have been collecting that relate to family relationships. each term is the name for the father of the term preceding.

• father
• grandfather
• ayel
• besayle
• tresayle
• quatrayle
• tritavus

your tritavus is your great-grandfather’s great-grandfather (and by extension and latinate first declension feminine endings, your tritavia is your great great great great great grandmother). it’s more than likely that that you and i share certain tritavorum tritavi (our gggggggggggg grandfathers). after all, we each have (at most) 16,384 or 2^14 tritavorum tritavi. and they were most likely doing their thing all the way back in the 1600’s.