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saeter.

A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈseɪtə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈsɛ-/Received-Pronunciation/ˈseɪtɚ/General-American/ˈsɛ-/General-American
  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
Where this word comes from

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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