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saeter

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

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seter

English

Etymology 1

See saeter.

Noun

seter (plural seters)

  1. Alternative spelling of saeter
    • 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:
      Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
    • 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:
      In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.
    • 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:
      For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

  1. A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
    • 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:
      The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.
    • 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere ?ISBN, page 227
      As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

seter (plural seters)

  1. A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.

Anagrams

  • Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ster (star), from Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [s??t?r]
  • Hyphenation: sê?tèr

Noun

seter or sêtèr

  1. (colloquial) star, a star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
    Synonym: bintang

Further reading

  • “seter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seter n pl

  1. indefinite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse setr, sætr.

Noun

seter f (definite singular setra, indefinite plural setrar or setrer, definite plural setrane or setrene)

  1. a seter
    Synonym: støl
Alternative forms
  • sæter (non-standard since 2012)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • sitja (to sit).

Etymology 2

Noun

seter f

  1. indefinite plural of sete

References

  • “seter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Ester, ester, reset, reste, setre, teser, terse

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