Schwarzentruber

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Schwarzentrub + -er, literally someone from Schwarzentrub, referring to a place in the municipality of Trub in the Emmental region of the canton of Bern in Switzerland, from schwarz (black) + Trub (a place name). The village of Trub is first mentioned in 1139 as Truoba.[1] Most likely, the name stems from the small creek Trueb that is running though the village.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃvaɐ̯tsn̩ˌtʁuːbɐ]
  • Hyphenation: Schwar‧zen‧tru‧ber

Proper noun

Schwarzentruber m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Schwarzentrubers or (with an article) Schwarzentruber, feminine genitive Schwarzentruber, plural Schwarzentrubers or Schwarzentruber)

  1. a surname (from Switzerland)

References

  1. Trub (Gemeinde), hls-dhs-dss.ch
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