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Quotation dates: 1420, 1520-1641
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Pronevoy, -nevow, n. Also: -nevoye, -newo(w, -nevw, -newu, -nevo; -nevay; -nepvoy, -nepoy. [Only Sc. Pro, see Pronece, and Nevo or Nepvo, after F. pronepveu (1486 in Godef.), L. pronepos = Pronepotn. See also Prenevoy n.] A great grandson.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii 340.
To the stok I am swa newu: Pro-newu [v.r. pronewow] yhe ar c1420 Ib. 355.
Na custome … That … the pro-newu [W. pronevow] Suld preferryd be to the newu c1420 Ib. 370.
Pro-nevw 1520 Protocol Book of John Foular II 72.
David Lord Drummond the pronevo and air of the said umquhile Johne Lord Drummond his foregrantschir 1524 Reg. Privy S. I 503/2.
Pronevoy 1533 Boece 210.
Malcolme pronevo [L. pronepos] of Sanct Mergarete 1535 Stewart 9995. 1543 Reg. Privy S. III 35/2.
Gilbert Auchinlek, pronevoy, are and successour of the said umquhill Hucheoun 1561 Ib. V i 204/2.
Pronewo 1567 Montgomery Mem. 204.
Pronevoye 1591 Lennox Mun. 332.
Pronevay, air and successour be progres to vmquhyill Lord Darnelie, our grandshir 1592 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts X 59. 1593 Acts IV 11/2. 1641 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 484.(b) 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Eneya.
The son in the first degree excludis the nepuoy in the second, & the nepuoy excludis the pronepuoy in the thrid degree(c) 1622-6 Bisset I 62/28 (see Eroy n.).
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