Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Anglo-Norman.
* As an English surname, variant of Mayer. * As a Spanish surname, from the adjective mayor (“older, elder”). * Also as a Spanish surname, from the archaic noun major (“mayor, chief”), itself related to the above. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Meyer.
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