mazer

Meaning

Noun

• The maple tree, or maple wood.
• A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.

Origin

• From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre ("a kind of maple wood"), in turn from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser), Icelandic mösurr.
• 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.