Unscramble

g 2 r 1 a 1 n 1 d 2 f 4 a 1 t 1 h 4 e 1 r 1

11 letters · 19 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the father of your father or mother

originThe noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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