## Etymology
From tease + -er. Tease is from Old English tǣsan ('to pull apart, comb wool'), from Proto-Germanic *taisijaną; the modern figurative sense 'to provoke, tantalize' developed later.

## AI Etymology
Teaser comes from tease + -er. Tease is from Old English tǣsan ('to pull apart, comb wool'), from Proto-Germanic *taisijaną; the modern figurative sense 'to provoke, tantalize' developed later. The historical chain includes Old English tǣsan and Proto-Germanic *taisijaną. The quoted older senses, "to pull apart, comb wool" and "to provoke, tantalize", supply the semantic anchors for teaser. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word teaser carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "something that arouses interest by giving a brief preview". Related English forms include tease and teasing. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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