bezantler
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old or modern French bes-antlier, ultimately related to Latin bis (“twice”).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]bezantler (plural bezantlers)
- Bez (second branch of a deer's antler).
References
[edit]- ^ Michael Brander (1997) The Language of the Field, Carcanet Press: “bay OED: 'short for bay-antler: earlier be- or bes-antlier, from the Old French bes twice, second, secondary + […]'”
- ^ James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions (1888) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 713: “Bay [...] short for bay-antler, earlier be- or bes antlier, f. OF bes twice, second, secondary + Antler.] The second branch of a stag's horn, formerly also called the sur-antlier, being next above the 'antler' proper, or (as it is now called) brow-antler.”