Etymology

saylor

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Today it means: A surname originating as an occupation. Full definition →

Old French sailleor
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromsailleor“dancer, acrobat”
  2. English todaySaylor

From Old French sailleor (“dancer, acrobat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.