naiskel’s-naiskelnouna grandfather20. Compare naiscowletymology: origin of nais is obscure but it seems to denote a first-degree blood relative; compare Latin nāscor, Romanian naşte and Irish nasc; second element perhaps a form of Scots cowl ‘a man’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsiesnote:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests a form gran naiskel with the same meaning.