Etymology

keller

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Today it means: A beer cellar in Germany or Austria Full definition →

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The story

* As a German surname, from Keller (“storehouse”). * As an English surname, from queller (“hangman, executioner, killer”). * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, spelling variant of Keillor, from gu leòr (“plenty, enough, sufficient”) (comparable to galore).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.