1º_ The Swiss Confederation is a European country. Its direct etymology comes from the name of the former canton of Schwyz, which resulted in the current German name Schweiz, which is supposed to be related to swedan ("burn the land to build on it"). From there appears the archaic version Suiça (which is still used in Portuguese) and that in Spanish evolved as Switzerland. See Helvetia . 2º_ Feminine of the Swiss demonym . See Swiss .
