- to be descended from
Example
- Un die Ursach as ich saag "es pennsilfaanisch deitsch Karicheyaahr" iss ass all minanner die Glaawe, wie ich schunn oft gsaat hab, as unser Voreldre ghatt hen, wei, schtamme vun die Biewel her. And the reason that I say the "Pennsylvania German church calendar" is that all of these beliefs together, which I have often already mentioned, that our ancestors had, why, they descend from the Bible.