foremother

noun

Etymology

From fore- + mother.

  1. derived from *muþraz — “sediment
  2. inherited from *méh₂tēr
  3. inherited from *mōdēr
  4. inherited from *mōder
  5. inherited from mōdor
  6. inherited from moder
  7. prefixed as foremother — “fore + mother

Definitions

  1. A female ancestor.

    • “My strain has remained clearer than the rest because for countless ages my foremothers were high priestesses—the sacred office descends from mother to daughter.”
  2. A female predecessor, especially one of an earlier generation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foremother. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA