Where does “mæstare” come from?
mæstare (Old Swedish) 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.
Ancestry of “mæstare”, step by step
Words derived from “mæstare”