"auncestre" meaning in Middle English

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      "word": "ancestor"
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      "lang_code": "gmw-msc",
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      ],
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    ],
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      "*-s",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-s#Proto-Indo-European:_amphikinetic"
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      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/anti#Proto-Italic:_before"
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    ],
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      "cedo#Latin"
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    ],
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      "-tor",
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    ],
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      "antecessor",
      "antecessor#Latin"
    ],
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      "auncestre",
      "ancessor#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "auncessour",
      "auncessour#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "auncestre",
      "auncestre#Old_French"
    ],
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      "auncessour",
      "auncessour#Old_French"
    ],
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      "auncessour",
      "auncessour#Middle_English"
    ],
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      "antecessor",
      "antecessor#Latin"
    ],
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    ],
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      "cedo",
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      "-tor",
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      "antecessour",
      "antecessour#Middle_English"
    ],
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      "auncessour",
      "auncessour#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "c.",
      "circa"
    ]
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    {
      "form": "auncestres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ancestre",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "auncetere",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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        "Late-Middle-English"
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      ]
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      },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "ipa": "/a(u̯)nˈsɛstrə/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/a(u̯)nˈsɛtrə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ər/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈa(u̯)nsɛstər/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa(u̯)nsɛtər/",
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    {
      "ipa": "/-rə/",
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}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₂ent-\nProto-Indo-European *-s\nProto-Indo-European *h₂énts\nProto-Indo-European *-i\nProto-Indo-European *h₂énti\nProto-Italic *anti\nLatin ante\nLatin ante-\nLatin cedo\nProto-Indo-European *-tōr\nProto-Italic *-tōr\nLatin -tor\nLatin antecessor\nAnglo-Norman auncestrebor.\nMiddle English auncestre\nBorrowed from Anglo-Norman auncestre, nominative of auncessour (see auncessour), from Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of antecessour and auncessour. First attested in c. 1300.\nForms such as /a(u̯)nˈsɛtrə/ reflect either dissimilatory loss of /s/ or borrowing of Romance forms with preconsonantal loss of /s/.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auncestres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ancestre",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "auncetere",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "auncestor",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "awncetyr",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "auncestre",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "auncestres"
      },
      "expansion": "auncestre (plural auncestres)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "antecessour"
    },
    {
      "word": "auncessour"
    },
    {
      "word": "auncestrie"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An ancestor or progenitor; someone that a person is descended from."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "progenitor",
          "progenitor"
        ],
        [
          "someone",
          "someone"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "descend",
          "descend"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A predecessor; an officeholder preceding a person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "predecessor",
          "predecessor"
        ],
        [
          "officeholder",
          "officeholder"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A predecessor; an officeholder preceding a person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a(u̯)nˈsɛstrə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/a(u̯)nˈsɛtrə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ər/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa(u̯)nsɛstər/",
      "note": "with stress shift"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa(u̯)nsɛtər/",
      "note": "with stress shift"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-rə/",
      "note": "with stress shift"
    }
  ],
  "word": "auncestre"
}