pass down

English

pass down (third-person singular simple present passes down, present participle passing down, simple past and past participle passed down)

(transitive) To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
In poor families, solid clothes are passed down from elder children to kid siblings, who must wear them out or if they outgrow them pass them down to still younger relatives.
- 1987, Galen Rowell, “Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 526:
  "Our language is unwritten and our history and our deeds are passed down from father to son," Wazir Ghulam Mahdi told me.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass,‎ down.

to hand over