different between pastoralist vs herder

English

Etymology

pastoral +? -ist

Adjective

pastoralist (comparative more pastoralist, superlative most pastoralist)

1. Having features common to pastoralism.

   a pastoralist society

Translations

Noun

pastoralist (plural pastoralists)

1. (agriculture) A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock
   • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]

     As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock.

English

Etymology

From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd +? -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??d?/, /?h??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

herder (plural herders)

1. One who herds.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dreher, Rehder

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch herder, earlier herde from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”) + agent suffix -e; the agent suffix -er replaced -e when the latter fell in disuse as signifying agency.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???rd?r/
• Hyphenation: her?der
• Rhymes: -?rd?r

Noun

herder m (plural herders, diminutive herdertje n, feminine herderin)

1. A herdsman, herd, herder of a flock of animals.
2. A pastoral (clerical) guide.
3. A sheepdog.

   Synonym: herdershond

Derived terms

• geitenherder
• Goede Herder
• herderlijk
• herdershond
• herdersstaf
• schaapsherder
• zielenherder

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

herder

1. present of herde