Where does “meistari” come from?
meistari (Icelandic) comes from Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister, from Proto-Italic magisteros, from Proto-Indo-European méǵh₂isteros, from Proto-Indo-European méǵh₂s — big, great.
meistari (Icelandic): master
Ancestry of “meistari”, step by step
Words derived from “meistari”