"Mayer" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English mire, a borrowing from archaic French mire (“physician”). Compare Myer. * Also as an English name, from the noun mayor. Compare Mayor, Mair. * As a German and Dutch surname, variant of Meyer, Myers. * Also as a Dutch surname, variant of Maijer, from the noun maaier (“mower, reaper”). * As a French Canadian surname, variant of Maille, itself of Breton origin, from the adjective maget (“nourished”), from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|Mear}} Mear, {{m|en|mere}} mere, {{der|en|enm|mire}} Middle English mire, {{der|en|fr|mire|id=physician|t=physician}} French mire (“physician”), {{m|en|Myer}} Myer, {{m|en|mayor}} mayor, {{m|en|Mayor}} Mayor, {{m|en|Mair}} Mair, {{der|en|de|-}} German, {{der|en|nl|-}} Dutch, {{m|en|Meyer}} Meyer, {{m|en|Myers}} Myers, {{m|en|Maijer}} Maijer, {{m|nl|maaier|t=mower, reaper}} maaier (“mower, reaper”), {{m|en|Maille}} Maille, {{der|en|br|-}} Breton, {{m|br|maget|t=nourished}} maget (“nourished”), {{der|en|cel-pro|*maketi|t=to raise}} Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*meh₂ḱ-|t=long, to raise}} Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”) Head templates: {{en-prop}} Mayer
  1. A surname from German.
    Sense id: en-Mayer-en-name-gISmo46Y Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Categories (place): Census-designated places in Arizona, USA, Census-designated places in the United States, Places in Arizona, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Mayer-en-name-D94NWvz6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 44 47 8 0
  3. A city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. Categories (place): Cities in Minnesota, USA, Cities in the United States, Places in Minnesota, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Mayer-en-name-tkA82-Xo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 44 47 8 0
  4. An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas, United States. Categories (place): Places in Texas, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Mayer-en-name-pnixVSuF
  5. A town in northern Syria. Categories (place): Places in Syria, Towns in Syria
    Sense id: en-Mayer-en-name-VCQucMuO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Mayer-Norton theorem, Mayersville, Mayerthorpe

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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.