Etymology

bayer

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Today it means: A surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym]. Full definition →

German Bayer ← Middle High German beieren
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The story

  1. Middle High German · derived frombeieren“to ring a bell”
  2. German · borrowed fromBayer
  3. English todayBayer

Borrowed from German Bayer. The surname is converged from both Bavaria and Middle High German beieren (“to ring a bell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.