different between seter vs seer

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

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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

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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)/, /si??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -i??(?)
• Homophones: cere, sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
2. One who sees something; an eyewitness.

Related terms

• seeress

Translations

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SERE, eres, rees, rese, sere

Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se??r/, [?se???]
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

Further reading

• seer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sêer

1. painful, sore
2. sick

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêre

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sair?.

Noun

sêer n

1. pain, ache
2. sorrow, emotional pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Further reading

• “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?ar.

Noun

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sér.

Adjective

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +? -er

Noun

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

See also

• sjåar (Nynorsk)

References

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ser

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.e?/

Verb

seer

1. to be

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: ser
• Portuguese: ser

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?. As time passed, it merged with ser (“to be”), from Latin sum (“to be”).

Verb

seer

1. to be
2. to sit

See also

• eseyente