•Schwyz (a canton of Switzerland) · Schwyz (a town, the capital of Schwyz canton, Switzerland) · Schwyz District (a district of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland)
köken: From Latin Suittes (attested 972), perhaps from the Old High German verb swīdan (“to burn”), referring to a spot cleared by slash-and-burn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīþan; compare Old Norse svíða (“to burn, singe”). In the High Middle Ages recorded as Swiz or Switz, by the late 15th to early 16th century as Schwitz or Schwytz. The territory of Schwyz (the later canton) is recorded in Middle…