Meanings

founder of dynasty or sect

to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

great-grandfather

Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory

ancestor

ancestral

the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)

hereditary

what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation

ancestral spirits

the first generation of a family

ancestral spirit

eponym (person after whom something is named)

Proto-Indo-European (language)

Proto-Indo-European (language)

the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China

Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma

Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

ancestor structure