Schweizer

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer. === Proper noun === Schweizer (plural Schweizer) A surname from German. == German == === Alternative forms === Schweitzer (archaic) === Etymology === 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 === IPA(key): /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ/ Rhymes: -aɪ̯t͡sɐ Hyphenation: Schwei‧zer === Noun === Schweizer 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 ==== ==== Hypernyms ==== Mitteleuropäer ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Schweizerin schweizerisch ==== Descendants ==== → Polish: szwajcar, Szwajcar Ukrainian: швайца́р (švajcár) (obsolete) → Romanian: șvaițer → Russian: швейца́р (švejcár, “doorman, Swiss man (dated)”), швейца́ръ (švejcár) — pre-1918 spelling (possibly via Polish)→ Armenian: շվեյցար (šveycʻar)Bashkir: швейцар (şveytsar)Belarusian: швейцар (švjejcar)Chuvash: швейцар (švejtsar)Estonian: šveitserGeorgian: შვეიცარი (šveicari)Kazakh: швейцар (şveisar)Kyrgyz: швейцар (şveytsar)Latvian: šveicarsOssetian: швейца́р (švejcár)Tatar: швейцар (şweytsar) → Russian: швейца́рец (švejcárec, “Swiss man”) → Ukrainian: швейца́р (švejcár) === Proper noun === 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 ==== → English: Schweizer → Portuguese: Schweizer === Adjective === Schweizer (indeclinable, no predicative form) (relational) of Switzerland ==== Usage notes ==== 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 ==== Schweizerheit === Further reading === “Schweizer”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Schweizer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Schweizer” in Duden online Schweizer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de == Hunsrik == === Etymology === From Schweiz (“Switzerland”) +‎ -er. Compare German Schweizer. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sa/ Rhymes: -aɪ̯tsa Syllabification: Schwei‧zer === Noun === Schweizer m (plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin) Swiss (a person from Switzerland) === References === == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer. === Proper noun === Schweizer m or f by sense a surname from German