Maier
German
Etymology
- Variant of Meier (Meyer, Mayer).
- Also Germanized from Czech, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian Majer, Májer, itself borrowed from the obsolete German majer (“bailiff, steward”), from Latin maior (“greater”), related to the above.
Proper noun
Maier m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Maiers or (with an article) Maier, feminine genitive Maier, plural Maiers or Maier)
Declension
Declension of Maier [masculine // feminine, surname]
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | |||||||
| indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | (ein) | (der) | Maier | (eine) | (die) | Maier | (die) | Maiers, Maier |
| genitive | (eines) | (des) | Maiers, Maier1 | (einer) | (der) | Maier | (der) | Maiers, Maier |
| dative | (einem) | (dem) | Maier | (einer) | (der) | Maier | (den) | Maiers, Maier |
| accusative | (einen) | (den) | Maier | (eine) | (die) | Maier | (die) | Maiers, Maier |
1With an article.
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Proper noun
Maier m (genitive/dative lui Maier)
- a surname from German
References
- Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names][1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică