besaiel
English
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) A great-grandfather.
- (legal) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bisaïeul derived from Old French beseel derived from Latin bis (twice, in two ways, again).
Origin
Latin
bis
Gloss
twice, in two ways, again
Concept
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Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bi- English
- bipinnaria English
- Bicorniger Latin
- biceps Latin
- bicorniger Latin
- biformis Latin
- bilanx Latin
- bilinguis Latin
- binus Latin
- bis Latin
- biscoctus Latin
- bīnus, binus Latin
- ex Latin
- bi- German
- bi- Italian
- bis Italian
- bis- Italian
- aïeul French
- bi- French
- bisaïeul French
- biscuit French
- bi- Spanish, Castilian
- bizcocho Spanish, Castilian
- *dwís Proto-Indo-European
- bi- Portuguese
- bis Portuguese
- bi- Czech
- beseel Old French
- bis Esperanto
- bi- Catalan, Valencian
- bi- Galician
- birollo Galician
- bis Albanian