See also: schweizer

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer.

Proper noun

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Schweizer (plural Schweizer)

  1. A surname from German.

German

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Etymology

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Inherited 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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯t͡sɐ
  • Hyphenation: Schwei‧zer

Noun

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Schweizer m (strong, genitive Schweizers, plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizerin) (feminine form: Swiss (female) or melker (female))

  1. Swiss person, Swiss (male)
    Synonym: Eidgenosse
    Hypernym: Mitteleuropäer
  2. Swiss Guard
    Holonym: Schweizergarde
  3. (Catholicism) sacristan
    Synonym: Küster
  4. milker (a person or man who milks cows)
  5. doorman

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Proper noun

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Schweizer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schweizers or (with an article) Schweizer, feminine genitive Schweizer, plural Schweizers or Schweizer)

  1. a surname

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Adjective

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Schweizer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

  1. (relational) of Switzerland

Usage notes

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  • 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.

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Hunsrik

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Etymology

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From Schweiz (Switzerland) +‎ -er.[1]

Compare German Schweizer.

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Noun

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Schweizer m (nominative plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin)

  1. Swiss (a person from Switzerland)

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References

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  1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Schweizer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português[1] (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 148

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.

Proper noun

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Schweizer m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German