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Mayer

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
  2. 2
    A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
  3. 3
    A city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas, United States.
  5. 5
    A town in northern Syria.

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”).

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