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  2. Ancestor - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 November 2024. Person from whom another person is descended For other uses, see Ancestor (disambiguation). "Ancestry", "Forefather", and "Ancestress" redirect here. For the genealogy company, see Ancestry.com. For the band, see Forefather (band). For the song, see Ancestress (song). This article needs ...

  3. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is the source of related words in different languages. For example, the etymon of both Welsh ceffyl and Irish capall is the Proto-Celtic * kaballos (all meaning horse ). Descendants are words inherited across a language barrier, coming from a particular etymon in an ancestor language.

  4. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the numbers 1-10. However, this list is strictly of the ...

  5. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Ancestor worship: (拜祖), also ancestor veneration (敬祖) A religious practice based on the belief that one's ancestors possess supernatural powers. Animism : The religious belief that all objects, places, and creatures possess a distinct spiritual essence.

  6. Glossary of genetics and evolutionary biology - Wikipedia

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    Also called the last universal cellular ancestor or simply the last universal ancestor. The most recent population of organisms from which all extant organisms on Earth share a common descent; i.e. the most recent common ancestor of all organisms now living. LUCA is not thought to have been the earliest life on Earth, but rather the only ...

  7. Death anniversary - Wikipedia

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    The first death anniversary is called a barsy, from the word baras, meaning year in Hindi. Shraadh [1] means to give with devotion or to offer one's respect. Shraadh is a ritual for expressing one's respectful feelings for the ancestors. According to Nepali and Indian texts, a soul has to wander about in the various worlds after death and has ...

  8. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.

  9. Ahnentafel - Wikipedia

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    Write down the digit "1", which represents the subject, then from left to right write "0" for each father and "1" for each mother in the relation, ending with the ancestor of interest. The result will be the binary representation of the ancestor's ahnentafel number. Then convert the binary number to decimal form.