mezzisahs

== Old High German == === Alternative forms === mezzeres, mezzirahs, mazsahs === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Equivalent to maz +‎ sahs. The compound was obscured at an early time, within the Old High German period, which suggests frequent use. The original mezzisahs is first reduced to mazsahs. The form containing -r- then appears still in the Old High German period, as mezzirahs which via mezzarehs, mezziras, mezzeres becomes mezzer. Middle High German has mezzer virtually exclusively; but compare a 12th-century Rhenish mezsehs, whence r-less forms in contemporary Central Franconian (see Metz, Mäß). === Noun === mezzisahs n knife ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: messer, mezzer Bavarian: Messa Cimbrian: mèssar, mezzar (Luserna) Mòcheno: messer German: Messer Luxembourgish: Messer Vilamovian: maoser Yiddish: מעסער (meser)