Noun: Kaiser
| Singular | Kaiser |
| Plural | Kaisers |
Sample Sentences
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And Black Ivo is a veritable Kaiser. [1915, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 26, page 444:]
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[…] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France […] [1916, The Provocation of France, page 147:]
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Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritable Kaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States. [1919, Far Eastern Political Science Review - Volume 1, page 49:]
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[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser. [1929, Through the Leaves, page 489:]
Nouns inflected like Kaiser
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English kayser, from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word was cāser (“emperor”), but the shape of Middle English kayser (“emperor”) (versus the expected *caser, *coser) suggests it was borrowed from another Germanic language rather than inherited, and the modern English spelling and sense seem to be modified after modern German rather than a direct continuation of Middle English. Compare tsar, which was borrowed from Slavic.
2. Doublet of Caesar and tsar. See: Middle English Nouns '
kayser', Middle English Nouns '
kayser', Latin Nouns '
Caesar'.