Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/maistar

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister (“teacher”).

Noun

*maistar m

master

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*maistar
Genitive	*maistaras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*maistar	maistarō, maistarōs
Accusative	*maistar	*maistarā
Genitive	*maistaras	*maistarō
Dative	*maistarē	*maistarum
Instrumental	*maistaru	*maistarum

Alternative reconstructions

*māster

Descendants

Old English: mǣġester, māġister
- Middle English: maister, maistre, mayster, maystr, maistir (reinforced by Old French maistre)
  - English: master (see there for further descendants), mister (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: maister
Old Frisian: māster, mēster
- Saterland Frisian: Mäster
- West Frisian: master
Old Saxon: mēstar
- Middle Low German: mēster, mēister, meister, meyster, maister
  - → Old Norse: meistari
    - Icelandic: meistari
    - Faroese: meistari
    - Norwegian:
      Bokmål: mester
      Nynorsk: meister
    - Danish: mester
    - Old Swedish: mæstare, mæster
      - Swedish: mästare
        → Finnish: mestari
Old Dutch: *mēster
- Middle Dutch: mêester
  - Dutch: meester
    - Afrikaans: meester
    - → Indonesian: mester
  - Limburgish: meister
Old High German: meistar
- Middle High German: meister
  - German: Meister (see there for further descendants)
  - Yiddish: מײַסטער‎ (mayster)
  - → Old Czech: mistř, mistr, místr
    - Czech: mistr
    - → Polish: mistrz