Pronounced: BAN-yuhn day, noun
Notes: I’ve seen banyan trees, but I don’t know this word
Yesterday’s word
The word messuage means “a residential building with outbuildings and the attached land”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1400s
Background / Comments
I like the origin story of our word. The word came from the Old French word mesnage (household), but the ‘n’ was misread as a ‘u’ — thus, messuage. The Old French word came from the Latin word manere (to remain; dwell).
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