Home › Words › B › besaielbesaiel/bɪˈseɪ.əl/besaiel means A great-grandfather.besaiel is pronounced /bɪˈseɪ.əl/.EtymologyFrom Middle French besaieul, besayel, from Old French beseel, from Latin bis (“twice”) + aviolus, diminutive of avus (“grandfather”).nounA great-grandfather.e.g.“Herry Percy, knyght, Besaile to the said then Erle […]” — 1840, Collectanea topographica et genealogica: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.e.g.“In a Writ of Besayle he shall not have the View.” — 1598, John Kitchin, Le court leete et court baron:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ayel 72% match — A grandfather. vs besaiel →tresayle 66% match — A grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather. vs besaiel →belsire 66% match — grandfather; old man. vs besaiel →grandsire 65% match — Grandfather. vs besaiel →belchild 62% match — A grandchild. vs besaiel →goodsire 59% match — A grandfather. vs besaiel →bibi 59% match — A grandmother. vs besaiel →granther 59% match — grandfather vs besaiel →