mazer
/ˈmeɪzə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me"
- "Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]"
Etymology
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.