Suisse
See also: suisse
Franco-Provençal
French
Etymology
From Middle French Suisse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɥis/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -is
Usage notes
The traditional feminine Suissesse is often replaced with Suisse used as a female noun.[1]
- un Suisse ― a Swiss person
- une Suissesse ― a Swiss person [female]
- une Suisse ― a Swiss person [female]
Related terms
Derived terms
See also
- (countries of Europe) pays de l'Europe; Albanie, Allemagne, Andorre, Arménie, Autriche, Azerbaïdjan, Belgique, Biélorussie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Bulgarie, Chypre, Cité du Vatican, Croatie, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Géorgie, Grèce, Hongrie, Irlande, Islande, Italie, Kazakhstan, Lettonie, Liechtenstein, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macédoine du Nord, Malte, Moldavie, Monaco, Monténégro, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, République tchèque, Roumanie, Royaume-Uni, Russie, Saint-Marin, Serbie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Suisse, Turquie, Ukraine (Category: fr:Countries in Europe)
References
- “Suisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “Suisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Middle High German Swīzer (“male person from the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Old High German Suittes (“the town of Schwyz”) (attested 972), perhaps from the verb swīdan (“to burn”), referring to a spot cleared by slash-and-burn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīþan, from Proto-Germanic *swīþaną (compare Old Norse svíða (“to burn, singe”)).
Descendants
- → English: Swiss
References
- Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
Norman
Etymology
From Middle High German Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
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