Suisse
Franco-Provençal
Proper noun
Suisse
- Switzerland (a country in Europe)
French
Etymology
From Middle French Suisse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɥis/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -is
Noun
Suisse m or f (plural Suisses, feminine Suissesse)
- Swiss person
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
- suisse
Proper noun
Suisse f
- Switzerland (a country in Central Europe)
Derived terms
- Suisse alémanique
Descendants
- → Chinese: 瑞士
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
- issues
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”)).
Noun
Suisse m (plural Suisses)
- male Swiss person
Descendants
- → English: Swiss
Proper noun
Suisse f
- Switzerland
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)
Proper noun
La Suisse f
- Switzerland