Etymology

mazer

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Today it means: The maple tree, or maple wood. Full definition →

Middle English maser ← Frankish *masur ← Proto-Germanic *masuraz
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited from*mæser
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*masuraz
  3. Frankish · derived from*masur
  4. Middle English · inherited frommaser
  5. English todaymazer

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*masuraz all →

measly

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