ael
English
Etymology
From Middle English aiel.
Noun
ael (plural aels)
- (law, common law, historical) grandfather; forefather, ancestor
- 1864, “Reports of Cases in Trinity Term, 32 Edw. I.”, in Alfred J. Horwood, editor, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First. Years XXXII–XXXIII, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page 256:
- Richard de C. brought a writ of Ael against the Prior of Plumtone, and demanded so much &c. ; and counted that William his grandfather was seised &c. ; that from William it descended to William ; and from William to Richard the present demandant.
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References
- Noah Webster (1828), “ayle”, in A Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, New York
- Henry Campbell Black (1910), “ÆL”, in Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd edition, West Publishing Company, archived from the original on 17 October 2015, retrieved 18 January 2017
- “ail”, in The Law-french Dictionary Alphabetically Digested, 2nd edition, London, 1718
Crimean Gothic
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz.
Inflection
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