mazer
See also: Mazer
English
Alternative forms
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.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeɪzə/
- Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Noun
mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)
- (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
- (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- 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
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
- Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]
Derived terms
References
- "mazer, n.1.", Oxford English Dictionary Online, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Middle English
Old French
Noun
mazer oblique singular, m (oblique plural mazers, nominative singular mazers, nominative plural mazer)
- maple
- large drinking bowl made maple; mazer bowl
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