saeter

名词 n.
/ˈseɪtə/|/ˈsɛ-/    /ˈseɪtɚ/|/ˈsɛ-/|[-ɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling. Orkney,Shetland

词形变化

saeters plural säter alternative saether alternative sæter alternative seter alternative

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