Definitions
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- noun obsolete See
ayle .
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- noun obsolete A
grandfather .
Etymologies
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From Old French aiol (French aïeul), from a Proto-Romance diminutive of Latin avus ‘grandfather’.
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Examples
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This same yere upon a Wednesday the xxj day of Octobre, on the morwe be vj [107] and vij on the belle, deyde kyng Charles kyng of Fraunce the kynges aiel of Engelond, in his ostell of seynt Poule withinne
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* noble Roy vre aiel quint, entre autres foit contenuz en la
Precedents of proceedings in the House of commons; with observations .. 1796
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•aiel, one of the nobles of their fadion, was proclaimed King, by the nam« o£ Nafir.
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