How do you say “grandfather” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say grand, paire-grand, papet, rèire, rèire-grand, segne-grand. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | grand, paire-grand, papet, rèire, rèire-grand, segne-grand |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
grand
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | grandmother, grandparents; grandfather; grand; ancestor; big |
| Feminine | grando |
| Variants | grando |
paire-grand
| Grammatical category | Noun |
| English translation | grandfather |
papet
| Grammatical category | Noun (m.) |
| English translation | grandfather |
rèire
| Grammatical category | Noun (m.) |
| English translation | grandfather; ancestors; ascendant |
rèire-grand
| Grammatical category | Noun |
| English translation | grandfather; great-grandfather |
segne-grand
| Grammatical category | Noun |
| English translation | grandfather; ancestor; old man |