Etymograph

English

Schuster

Schuster comes from German Schuster ‘shoemaker, cobbler’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *skōhasūtārī.

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*skōhasūtārī‘shoemaker’reconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*skuohsūterireconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350schuochsūtære
  4. Germanc. 1650–presentSchuster‘shoemaker, cobbler’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*skōhasūtārī‘shoemaker’reconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*skuohsūterireconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350schuochsūtære
  4. Germanc. 1650–presentSchuster‘shoemaker, cobbler’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A surname.

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

Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *skōhasūtārī / Schuster