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Sathmar Swabian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Sathmar (“Satu Mare”) + Swabian. Unlike other Danube Swabians, the Sathmar Swabians were primarily from Swabia.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to this German community or its lect.
    • 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 […] 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN, page 275:
    • 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. 1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority, page 14:

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Translations (3)

hu szatmári sváb (of or pertaining to this group or its lect) · pl szwabski z Satu Mare (of or pertaining to this group or its lect) · de sathmarschwäbisch (of or pertaining to this group or its lect)

Sathmar Swabian en · NOUN

Etymology

From Sathmar (“Satu Mare”) + Swabian. Unlike other Danube Swabians, the Sathmar Swabians were primarily from Swabia.

Meanings

  1. 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.
    • Since the final stages of WWII, Romania has not been the only country where substantial groups of Sathmar Swabians can be found. 1985, Jacob Steigerwald, Tracing Romania's heterogeneous German minority:
    • 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, ..."
    • A smaller Swabian group, known as Sathmar Swabians, lives in northern Transylvania, in the Satu Mare district. 1991, Report on Eastern Europe, volume 2, issues 27-39, page 32
    • Transmigration seems to be the ongoing destiny of Sathmar Swabians. 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, The Ethics of Remembering, →ISBN:

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Translations (6)

de Sathmarschwabe (member of the German community in Sathmar) · pl Szwabka z Satu Mare (member of the German community in Sathmar) · pl Szwab z Satu Mare (member of the German community in Sathmar) · hu szatmári sváb (member of the German community in Sathmar) · ro șvab sătmărean (member of the German community in Sathmar) · de Sathmarer Schwabe (member of the German community in Sathmar)