Schweizer

See also: schweizer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schweizer. Doublet of Switzer.

Proper noun

Schweizer (plural Schweizer)

1. 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/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯t͡sɐ
• Hyphenation: Schwei‧zer

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of Schweizer [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Schweizer	die	Schweizer
genitive	eines	des	Schweizers	der	Schweizer
dative	einem	dem	Schweizer	den	Schweizern
accusative	einen	den	Schweizer	die	Schweizer

Hypernyms

• Mitteleuropäer

Hyponyms

• Auslandsschweizer
• Deutschschweizer
• Innerschweizer
• Nordschweizer
• Ostschweizer
• Papierschweizer
• Südschweizer
• Welschschweizer
• Westschweizer
• Zentralschweizer

• Aargauer
• Baseler
• Berner
• Genfer
• Graubündner
• Luzerner
• Neuenburger
• Tessiner
• Thurgauer
• Zürcher

Derived terms

• Schweizerin
• schweizerisch

Descendants

• → 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)
  • → Armenian: շվեյցար (šveycʻar)
  • Bashkir: швейцар (şveytsar)
  • Belarusian: швейцар (švjejcar)
  • Chuvash: швейцар (švejtsar)
  • Estonian: šveitser
  • Georgian: შვეიცარი (šveicari)
  • Kazakh: швейцар (şveisar)
  • Kyrgyz: швейцар (şveytsar)
  • Latvian: šveicars
  • Ossetian: 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)

1. a surname

Descendants

• → English: Schweizer
• → Portuguese: Schweizer

Adjective

Schweizer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (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
• “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)

1. Swiss (a person from Switzerland)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.

Proper noun

Schweizer m or f by sense

1. a surname from German