Sathmar Swabian
English
Etymology
Sathmar (“Satu Mare”) + Swabian. Unlike other Danube Swabians, the Sathmar Swabians were primarily from Swabia.
Noun
Sathmar Swabian (plural Sathmar Swabians)
- A member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.
- 1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority:
- Since the final stages of WWII, Romania has not been the only country where substantial groups of Sathmar Swabians can be found.
- 1991, Report on Eastern Europe, volume 2, issues 27-39, page 32
- A smaller Swabian group, known as Sathmar Swabians, lives in northern Transylvania, in the Satu Mare district.
- 2006, Hans Gehl, "The Sathmar-Swabian Dialects and Their Speakers", translation of Die sathmarschwäbischen Dialekte und ihre Sprachträger, in Philologica Jassyensia (summary: "... The Sathmar Swabians lacked spiritual leadership, ..."
- 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN:
- Transmigration seems to be the ongoing destiny of Sathmar Swabians.
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Translations
member of the German community in Sathmar
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Adjective
Sathmar Swabian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to this German community or its lect.
- 1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority, page 14:
- At the German department of the University of Timisoara (Temeswar) in the Banat, Romania, a number of Sathmar Swabian linguistic studies were completed during the l970's.
- 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN, page 275:
- In the lion's den, I took notes on the recollection of the stories the Sathmar Swabian students had shared with me. Unresolved trauma tends to repeatedly occur like a haunting nightmare. It must have been so for all the Sathmar Swabian […]
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Translations
of or pertaining to this group or its lect
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See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Sathmar Swabian terms