sathmar swabian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
adj
Of or pertaining to this German community or its lect.
Example Sentences
- "Since the final stages of WWII, Romania has not been the only country where substantial groups of Sathmar Swabians can be found."
- "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, ...""
- "Transmigration seems to be the ongoing destiny of Sathmar Swabians."
- "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 1970's."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
From Sathmar (“Satu Mare”) + Swabian. Unlike other Danube Swabians, the Sathmar Swabians were primarily from Swabia.
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