If schwartz is German for black, what does schwartzeneggar mean?

Answer 1

"schwarz" (now spelled this way) does mean "black" in German; and some German names are easily translated, the name of US general Schwartzkopf meaning "black head"; i.e one of his ancestors must have had a remarkable head of black hair.
A lot of German names are derived from place names (mesning an ancestor from that particular place (former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger had ancestors from Kissingen in Bavaria.

Schwarzenegger's name is another example for a surname derived from a place name. In Souther German dialects, places ending in "-eck" or "-egg" originally signified fortified places or castles, so that one of the "Gouvernator's" ancestors must have come from a place called Schwarzenegg, meaning "black castle" ort "black fort". There is a place with that name in Switzerland, near Berne, but that does not mean that all Schwarzenegger have to be from there. There were probably many places called such a name in popular usage, even if was was not the place's official name.

In Switzerland and Austria you find a lot of surnames ending in "-egger", such as the 19th century Austrian writer Peter Rosegger, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger or the contemporary Austrian writer Bernhard Hüttenegger.

Answer 2

Schwartz Meaning

Answer 3

German For Black

Answer 4

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If schwartz is German for black, what does schwartzeneggar mean?

Answer 5

Remember there's a Black Forest in Germany. It may refer to a location!

Answer 6

Actually it has no meaning (at least no german meaning). The word Schwarzen means OF black because it's genitive. I never heard the word Egger but if it's something like Farmer it would mean "Farmer of Black" which really makes no sense.
Not every German name has got a meaning...

Answer 7

No, the name Schwarzenegger is a dialect variant of the expression "schwarzer Acker" (in the accusative form "den schwarzen Acker"), or "black field". Names that go "red earth", "brown meadow" or "black land" are quite frequent. So what you mistake as the first N of the N-word, is actually the last letter of the accusative case of Acker. Many German names are weird to English ears, such as the surrogate coffee "Muckefuck", the city of "Titz" or the hamlet "********" in Austria. But the same applies vice versa: Germans laugh their heads off when they hear the English pronunciation of the name "Pamela", which sounds like "pimmela" to them -- reflecting an important German word for the male genital.

Answer 8

schwartz = black and egge = harrow, together it means ' the person who harrows black fields'

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Answer 9

I heard it was black farmer.In other words a farmer from the Black forest area.

Answer 10

Haven't thought too much about this