different between shieling vs saeter

English

Alternative forms

• shealing
• sheeling

Etymology

From Scots shiel (“hut”) (from Old Norse skjól (“shelter, cover”)) +? -ing.. Akin to Danish skjul (“cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?l??/

Noun

shieling (plural shielings)

1. An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 182:

     The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling, and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.

2. A shepherd's hut or shack.
   • 1836 Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1

     And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers,
     And all the shieling herdsmen from Bengorach,
     Must have a lair provided for the night.

   • 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 39:

     Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shealing.

References

Anagrams

• sheiling

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