The story
- Latin · derived frombis“twice”
- Old French · derived frombeseel
- Middle French · borrowed frombesaieul
- English todaybesaiel
From Middle French besaieul, besayel, from Old French beseel, from Latin bis (“twice”) + aviolus, diminutive of avus (“grandfather”).
Words from the same roots
Latinbis all →
bisbiflorousbimembralbinomenbipinnariabisexous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.