auncestrie

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === ancestrie, ansetry, auncetrie, auncetrye, aunscetrie, aunsetrie auncetry, aunsetre, awncetrye (Norfolk); auncetre, auncetry (Northwest Midland) awncestrye (Northern); ancestre, ancestrye, ancistry, awncestry (Early Scots) === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman auncestrie (continental Old French ancesserie, ancessorie); by surface analysis, auncestre +‎ -ie. First attested in c. 1400. As in auncestre, forms such as /ˌa(u̯)nsɛˈtriː(ə)/ reflect either dissimilatory loss of /s/ or borrowing of Romance forms with preconsonantal loss of /s/. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌa(u̯)nsɛsˈtriː(ə)/, /ˌa(u̯)nsɛˈtriː(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈa(u̯)nsɛstriː(ə)/, /ˈa(u̯)nsɛtriː(ə)/ (with stress shift) === Noun === auncestrie (uncountable) The lineage or descent of a person; ancestry. (collectively) The ancestors or progenitors of a person. ==== Descendants ==== English: ancestry Middle Scots: anchestry, ancistry (hapax) ==== References ==== “auncestrīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “ancestry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “ancestry, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.