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名祖

なおや
eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)
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祖父祖母

爺婆
じじばば、ジジババ
old people; grandparents
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祖国戦争

そこくせんそう
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
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インド・ヨーロッパ祖語

インドヨーロッパ祖語
インド・ヨーロッパそご、インドヨーロッパそご
Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)
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祖師西来

そしせいらい
the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China
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祖師禅

そしぜん
Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma
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祖霊

それい
ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
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真祖

しんそ
true ancestor; var. of vampire (in fiction)
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共通祖先

きょうつうそせん
common ancestor
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初祖

しょそ
the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect