Americanized spelling of German Kreisler or
Griessler, a topographic name for someone who lived or farmed
in an area of sand (see Gries), or (in the south) an
occupational name for a grocer, from Middle High German
griezmel ‘milled grain’ (from griez ‘sand’, ‘gravel’).
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