Schweizer
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer.
Proper noun edit
Schweizer (plural Schweizer)
- A surname from German.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German swīzer. Equivalent to Schweiz + -er. The senses "doorman" and "milker" arose because Swiss people were commonly employed in Germany in those professions; the sense "sacristan" arose because sacristans' garb resembled that of the Swiss Guards. For the sense development compare also French Suisse (“Swiss”) : suisse (“doorman”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Schweizer m (strong, genitive Schweizers, plural Schweizer)
- Swiss person
- Synonym: Eidgenosse
- Hypernym: Mitteleuropäer
- Swiss Guard
- Holonym: Schweizergarde
- (Catholicism) sacristan
- Synonym: Küster
- milker, person who milks cows
- doorman
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Descendants edit
- → Polish: szwajcar, Szwajcar
- Ukrainian: швайца́р (švajcár) (obsolete)
- → Romanian: șvaițer
- → Russian: швейца́р (švejcár, “doorman, Swiss man (dated)”), швейца́ръ (švejcár) (possibly via Polish)
- → Russian: швейца́рец (švejcárec, “Swissman”)
- → Ukrainian: швейца́р (švejcár)
Proper noun edit
Schweizer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schweizers or (with an article) Schweizer, feminine genitive Schweizer, plural Schweizers or Schweizer)
- a surname
Descendants edit
Adjective edit
Schweizer (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Switzerland
Usage notes edit
- Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Schweizer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schweizer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Schweizer” in Duden online
- Schweizer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik edit
Etymology edit
From Schweiz (“Switzerland”) + -er.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Schweizer m (nominative plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin)
- Swiss (person from Switzerland)
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Schweizer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary][1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 148
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.
Proper noun edit
Schweizer m or f by sense
- a surname from German