英和和英

語源

Adopted from Middle French Suisse in circa 1515, alongside the form Switzer directly loaned from German.

発音

• IPA: /swɪs/
• Homophone: swiss
• 韻: -ɪs

形容詞

Swiss (comparative more Swiss, superlative most Swiss)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:

     The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.

   • 2020 October 23, Daniel Boffey, “UK presses for use of faster passport gates at EU airports post-Brexit”, in The Guardian‎:

     The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing queueing arrangements”.

派生語

参考

• Alemannic
• Swiss German

名詞

Swiss (countable and uncountable, plural Swisses or Swiss)

1. (countable) A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.

   Synonym: Switzer

2. (uncountable) Swiss cheese.

   My favourite sandwich has roast beef and Swiss on rye bread.

固有名詞

Swiss

1. (nonstandard) Swiss German; the variety of German spoken in Switzerland.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Gasconade County, Missouri, named for Swiss immigrants.
   2. An unincorporated community in Yancey County, North Carolina.
   3. An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, named for a Swiss immigrant.
   4. A town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.