The story
- Middle English · inherited fromskolemayster
- English todayschoolmaster
From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master. Cognate with West Frisian skoalmaster (“schoolmaster”), Dutch schoolmeester (“schoolmaster”), Low German Schoolmeester, Schoolmeister (“schoolmaster”), German Schulmeister (“schoolmaster”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.