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See also: sæter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from:
- Norwegian Nynorsk sæter (obsolete spelling), seter, and Norwegian Bokmål seter, from Old Norse sætr, setr (“dairy lands, mountain pastures; residence, seat; setting (of the sun)”); and
- Swedish säter (“mountain pastures”);
all from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).[1] The English word is a doublet of sit.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈseɪtə/, /ˈsɛ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈseɪtɚ/, /ˈsɛ-/, [-ɾɚ]
- Homophones: satyr (GA pronunciation), setter (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ), -ɛtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: sae‧ter
Noun
[edit]saeter (plural saeters)
- A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
- A barn, cabin, dairy, or farm located in such a meadow.
- (Orkney, Shetland) A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling.
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]barn, etc., located in such a meadow
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meadow, especially one used for grazing attached to a dwelling
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Compare “saeter, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “saeter, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-
- English terms borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk
- English terms derived from Norwegian Nynorsk
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- English terms derived from Norwegian Bokmål
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms borrowed from Swedish
- English terms derived from Swedish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/ɛtə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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