Schweizer
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer.
Proper noun
editSchweizer (plural Schweizer)
- A surname from German.
German
editEtymology
editInherited 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
editNoun
editSchweizer m (strong, genitive Schweizers, plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizerin) (feminine form: Swiss (female) or melker (female))
- Swiss person, Swiss (male)
- Synonym: Eidgenosse
- Hypernym: Mitteleuropäer
- Swiss Guard
- Holonym: Schweizergarde
- (Catholicism) sacristan
- Synonym: Küster
- milker (a person or man who milks cows)
- doorman
Declension
editHypernyms
editHyponyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Polish: szwajcar, Szwajcar
- Ukrainian: швайца́р (švajcár) (obsolete)
- → Romanian: șvaițer
- → Russian: швейца́р (švejcár, “doorman, Swiss man (dated)”), швейца́ръ (švejcár) — Pre-reform orthography (1918) (possibly via Polish)
- → Russian: швейца́рец (švejcárec, “Swiss man”)
- → Ukrainian: швейца́р (švejcár)
Proper noun
editSchweizer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schweizers or (with an article) Schweizer, feminine genitive Schweizer, plural Schweizers or Schweizer)
- a surname
Descendants
editAdjective
editSchweizer (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
editFurther 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
editEtymology
editFrom Schweiz (“Switzerland”) + -er.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editSchweizer m (nominative plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin)
- Swiss (a person from Switzerland)
Declension
editReferences
edit- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Schweizer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português[1] (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 148
Portuguese
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.
Proper noun
editSchweizer m or f by sense
- a surname from German
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English surnames
- English surnames from German
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms suffixed with -er
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- Rhymes:German/aɪ̯t͡sɐ
- Rhymes:German/aɪ̯t͡sɐ/2 syllables
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Catholicism
- German proper nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- German surnames
- German adjectives
- German uncomparable adjectives
- German adjectives without predicate
- German relational adjectives
- German indeclinable adjectives
- de:Demonyms
- de:Nationalities
- de:People
- de:Switzerland
- Hunsrik terms suffixed with -er
- Hunsrik 2-syllable words
- Hunsrik terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hunsrik/aɪ̯t͡sɐ
- Rhymes:Hunsrik/aɪ̯t͡sɐ/2 syllables
- Hunsrik lemmas
- Hunsrik nouns
- Hunsrik masculine nouns
- hrx:Nationalities
- Portuguese terms borrowed from German
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from German
- Portuguese terms derived from German
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with W
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Portuguese surnames
- Portuguese surnames from German