Zipser

English

Etymology

From German Zipser, from Zips.

Noun

Zipser (plural Zipsers)

1. A member of the Germanic-speaking ethnic group which developed in the Zips region of Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) beginning in the 13th century, and subsequently settled also in northern Romani, Bukovina, Maramureș, Transylvania, and ultimately Germany.
   • 1854, Sandor Mednyánszky, Anna Margaret Birkbeck, Rural and historical gleanings from eastern Europe, page 193:

     The Zipsers are an enduring and vigorous race of people, honest and simple in their habits, and remarkable alike for their general mental culture and ardent attachment to liberty and the Protestant faith. Of this they gave countless proofs amidst the vicissitudes their country was subjected to under the Austrian rule. Their devotion, however, reached its height during the memorable period of 1848, when they placed their savings at the disposal of the national Government, ...

   • 2007, Gabriele Lunte, The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas: A Unique Bavarian Dialect:

     The Lutheran "Swabians" from southwest Germany, [...] the Catholic Bohemian Germans, from the Bohemian Forest, now in the Czech Republic, and the Zipsers, from the Zips mountains, now in Slovakia. The Lutheran "Swabians" immigrated to Bukovina from 1782-1787, and the Zipsers between 1784-1809.

   Synonym: Zipser German

Anagrams

• pizers, prizes, rezips

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German

Etymology

Zips +‎ -er, from Szepes in Hungary, of Hungarian (or possibly Slavic) origin; see Spiš.

Noun

Zipser m (genitive Zipsers, plural Zipser)

1. a Zipser