Etymology

Shaeffer

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

German Schäfer
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromSchäfer“shepherd”
  2. English todayShaeffer

From German Schäfer (“shepherd”). More at Schaefer.

Words from the same roots

GermanSchäfer all →

SchaferSheafferPastorius

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.