Meister

Morpheme

Meister

Type

free base

Denotation

master, highly skilled tradesman, expert, champion

Etymology

German Meister; Middle High German meister; Old High German meistar; Latin magister, from magis + -ter

Evidence

cheesemeister, concertmeister, crapmeister, crunkmeister, fraudmeister, gagmeister, greedmeister, groovemeister, horrormeister, kapellmeister, meister, meisters, nibmeister, partymeister, pollmeister, porkmeister, rapmeister, schlockmeister, spinmeister, torturemeister, tunemeister

Notes

<r> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable
meister, magister, master, and maestro are doublets

See Also

Magis, -t(e)r [-ter, -tr], Master, Maestr