# 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: /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ/
* Audio:(file)
* 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

#### 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)
* 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
* “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: /ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sa/
* Rhymes: -aɪ̯tsa
* Syllabification: Schwei‧zer

### Noun

Schweizer m (plural Schweizer, feminine Schweizrin)
* Swiss (a person from Switzerland)

### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Schweizer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 148

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Schweizer.

### Proper noun

Schweizer m or f by sense
* a surname from German