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The English name of ''Switzerland'' is a compound containing ''Switzer'', an obsolete term for the Swiss, which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries.〔OED (Online Etymology Dictionary ) etymonline.com. Retrieved on 25 June 2009〕 The English adjective ''Swiss'' is a loan from French ''フランス語:Suisse'', also in use since the 16th century. The name ''Switzer'' is from the Alemannic ', in origin an inhabitant of ''Schwyz'' and its associated territory, one of the Waldstätten cantons which formed the nucleus of the Old Swiss Confederacy. The name originates as an exonym, applied ''pars pro toto'' to the troops of the Confederacy. The Swiss themselves began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian War of 1499, used alongside the term for "Confederates", ''Eidgenossen'' ("oath-fellows"), used since the 14th century. The Swiss German name of the country is homophonous to that of the canton and the settlement, but distinguished by the use of the definite article (' for the Confederation,〔(Züritütsch, Schweizerdeutsch (p. 2) ) schweizerdeutsch.ch. Retrieved on 26 January 2010〕 but simply ' for the canton and the town).〔(Kanton Schwyz: Kurzer historischer Überblick ) sz.ch. Retrieved on 26 January 2010〕 ==Schwyz== (詳細はGermanic name in ''Svid-'' or from either a Germanic or a Celtic word for "clearing".〔A summary of the history of suggestions until 1970 is given in Viktor Weibel, ''Suittes - Schwyz - Schweiz : Geschichte und Deutung des Namens Schwyz', ''Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins des Kantons Schwyz'' 65 (1972). See also ''Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen'', Frauenfeld 2005, 819f.〕 The name is recorded as ''Schwitz'' in the 13th century, and in the 17th to 18th century often as ''Schweitz''. The spelling of ''y'' for () originates as a ligature ''ij'' in 15th-century handwriting. The Swiss chroniclers of the 15th and 16th centuries present a legendary eponymous founder, one ''Suit'' (''Swit, Schwyt, Switer''), leader of a population migrating from Sweden due to a famine. Suit is said to have defeated his brother ''Scheijo'' (or ''Scheyg'') in single combat in a dispute over leadership of the new settlement. Petermann Etterlin (fl. 1470s, printed 1507).〔Etterlin's account is supposedly based on a "common Swiss chronicle" (''Gesta Suitensium'', ''gemeine Schwyzerchronik'' also reflected in the White Book of Sarnen and later by Aegidius Tschudi (''Die Geschichte der Ostfriesen, Swedier und andre, so mit jnen gereisset, vnd wie Switer dem Lande den Namen Swiz gegeben''). Etterlin presents the three Waldstätte as representing three different stocks or races, the people of Schwyz as the most recent immigrants (from Sweden), the people of Uri representing the original "Goths and Huns", and the people of Unterwalden representing "the Romans". Vetter, ''Ueber die Sage von der Herkunft der Schwyzer und Oberhasler aus Schweden und Friesland'', 1877, (p. 10 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Name of Switzerland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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