Where does “batel” come from?

batel (Middle English) comes from Old English batol, from Old English batian, from Old English -ol, from Proto-Germanic -ulaz — Forms adjectives from verbs meaning "doing" or...

batel (Middle English): Alternative form of batayle; flourishing

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of batayle; flourishing

Ancestry of “batel”, step by step

batel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English batol

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishbatolimproving, tending to be good
2Old Englishbatianto fatten, to get fatter; to improve, to get...
3Old English-olUsed to form suffixes denoting inclination or...
4Proto-Germanic-ulazForms adjectives from verbs meaning "doing" or...

via Old French bataille

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbataillebattle
2Latinbattālia—
3Latinbattuōto beat, hit, pound, beat up, strike

Words derived from “batel”

Every word from Proto-Germanic -ulaz →