Suisse
See also: suisse
Franco-Provençal edit
Proper noun edit
Suisse
- Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French Suisse.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Suisse m or f (plural Suisses, feminine Suissesse)
- Swiss person
Usage notes edit
The traditional feminine Suissesse is often replaced with Suisse used as a female noun.[1]
- un Suisse ― a Swiss person
- une Suissesse ― a Swiss person [female]
- une Suisse ― a Swiss person [female]
Related terms edit
Proper noun edit
Suisse f
- Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
- (countries of Europe) pays de l'Europe; Albanie, Allemagne, Andorre, Arménie, Autriche, Azerbaïdjan, Belgique, Biélorussie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Bulgarie, Chypre, Cité du Vatican, Croatie, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Géorgie, Grèce, Hongrie, Irlande, Islande, Italie, Kazakhstan, Lettonie, Liechtenstein, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macédoine du Nord, Malte, Moldavie, Monaco, Monténégro, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, République tchèque, Roumanie, Royaume-Uni, Russie, Saint-Marin, Serbie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Suisse, Turquie, Ukraine (Category: fr:Countries in Europe)
References edit
- ^ “Suisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “Suisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German Swīzer (“male person from the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Old High German Suittes (“the town of Schwyz”) (attested 972), perhaps from the verb swīdan (“to burn”), referring to a spot cleared by slash-and-burn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīþan, from Proto-Germanic *swīþaną (compare Old Norse svíða (“to burn, singe”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Suisse m (plural Suisses)
- male Swiss person
Descendants edit
- → English: Swiss
Proper noun edit
Suisse f
- Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)
References edit
- Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Proper noun edit
La Suisse f
- Switzerland (a country in Western Europe and Central Europe)