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Eldmother

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law. archaic, dialectal

    "Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke."

Etymology

From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldemōder.

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