different between meadow vs saeter

English

Etymology

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English m?dwe, inflected form of m?d (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *m?dw? (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ?????? (ám?tos, “reaping”)), enlargement of *h?meh?-. More at mow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?do?/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: mead?ow

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Synonyms

• lea/leigh

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

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 *sitjan? (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is a doublet of sit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?se?t?/, /?s?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?se?t?/, /?s?-/, [-??]
• Homophones: satyr (GA pronunciation), setter (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?), -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: sae?ter

Noun

saeter (plural saeters)

1. A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
2. A barn, cabin, dairy, or farm located in such a meadow.
3. (Orkney, Shetland) A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling.

Alternative forms

• säter
• saether
• sæter (obsolete)
• seter

Translations

See also

• shieling

References

Further reading

• transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Easter, Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, easter, eaters, ratees, reseat, seater, staree, teares, teaser