Mast

• As a Dutch surname, from the noun mast.
• Also as a Dutch surname, from the noun mast (sense 2) (“fodder”).
• As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Mast (“fat”), itself related to the sense of "fodder" above.

Mast

1. A surname.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mast”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 529.

• Mats, tams, amts, mats, TAMs, MTAs, ATMs, AMTs, MATs, Stam, ASTM, stam, MATS

• IPA^(key): /mast/

From Middle High German mast, from Old High German mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast.

Mast m (mixed or strong, genitive Mastes or Masts, plural Masten or Maste)

1. mast (of a ship)
2. pylon

• The usual plural is Masten; the form Maste is rare.

• Rah
• Segel
• Takelage
• Schiff

From Middle High German mast, from Old High German mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mad(z)do-. Related to *matiz (“food”).

Cognate with Dutch mast, English mast. Probably related with Mett (“minced meat”).

Mast f (genitive Mast, plural Masten)

1. (originally) mast (fodder made of acorns and beechnuts)
2. (now most usually) the process of fattening livestock
3. (chiefly in compounds) a large animal farm

• mästen

• “Mast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mast” in Duden online

• Maascht (archaic)

From German Mast. Displaced the inherited form above.

• IPA^(key): [mɑst]

Mast m (plural Masten)

1. mast (of a ship)