English

Meader

From mead + -er, either a topographic surname for someone who lived by a meadow or an occupational surname for a brewer or seller of mead.

Formed from mead + -er

Proto-Indo-European *médʰu ‘honey’

Proto-Germanic *meduz

Proto-West Germanic *medu

Old English medu

Middle English mede

English mead

Today it means

name A surname.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.