Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

ancestral

/ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/ adjective, noun

Forms ancestrals ancestrall auncestral

adjective Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors. “an ancestral estate”
noun An ancestor or forbear.
noun (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
noun An elderly relative.
noun (biology) A genetic precursor.
noun A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
noun An earlier version of something.
noun The spirit of one's ancestor.
noun One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.

Synonyms

From Anglo-Norman ancestrel, from ancestre (“ancestor”), equivalent to ancestor + -al.

adjective Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ancestral”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ancestral” (best matches first).

अपित्र्य a-pitrya uninherited, not ancestral or paternal.
पूर्वीण pūrvīṇa derived from ancestors or forefathers, ancestral.
अपितृक a-pitṛka not ancestral or paternal, uninherited; fatherless.
पौर्विक paurvika former, previous, prior, primary; ancient, old; ancestral; ( ī ), f. an ancestress.
पूर्विन् pūrvin derived from ancestors or forefathers, observed by ancestors, ancestral; having formerly, having formerly be…
पितृक pitṛka (at the end of a comp.) paternal, parental, ancestral, relating or belonging to parents or progenitors, obse…
कौलिक kaulika belonging to a family or race, customary in a family, ancestral, heritable in the family; ( as ), m. a weave…
पैतृक paitṛka belonging or relating to a father or to ancestors generally, coming or derived from a father, paternal, ance…