[split] 66v: the widow's part?

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Edit: as a complete aside, apparently Chaucer used "del" for "part" as well.

Not surprising. Del is Norse (as mentioned above as part/portion/share of). There are many Norse words in Old & Middle English and in low German. It's spelled the same in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian as "del".

In Dutch it became "deel" and in English, it became "dele" and then also became a verb as "to deal" (to portion out, to deal out as one would deal out sectors of land or playing cards).