Ayle

//aɪ̯l// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A grandfather. obsolete

    "The Writ of Ayle was an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized."

Etymology

From Middle English ayel, aiel, from Old French aiol, aiel, from Vulgar Latin *aviolus, ultimately from Latin avus.

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