Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent. · Swiss cheese.
Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland. · An unincorporated community in Gasconade County, Missouri, named for Swiss immigrants. · An unincorporated community in Yancey County, North Carolina. · An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, named for a Swiss immigrant.
Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people. · Having or relating to the Swiss Marked pattern of goats, involving a black body and belly and tan legs, ears, and facial stripes.
Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.
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- Derivation mentionSuissefrm
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