English-French translations for ancestors

• aïeux
• ancêtres
  Ils veulent pour leurs ancêtres une "sépulture morale". They want a 'moral resting-place' for their ancestors.
  Je voudrais rappeler que nos ancêtres se déplaçaient volontiers. I should like to point out that our ancestors used readily to move around.
  Chaque peuple hérite de ses ancêtres d’une civilisation qu’il doit conserver. Every nation inherits from its ancestors a civilisation that it must preserve.

Related words

• ancestor
• cenancestor
• ancestorism
• ancestor worship
• common ancestor
• apical ancestor
• first ancestor
• last common ancestor
• last universal ancestor