English
saeter
Saeter comes from Old Norse setr ‘dairy lands, mountain pastures’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’root as named · steps between not traced
- Old Norsec. 800–1350setras sætr‘dairy lands, mountain pastures’next step skipped: Swedish säter
- Norwegian Nynorskmodernsæter
- Englishtodaysaeter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’root as named · steps between not traced
- Old Norsec. 800–1350setras sætr‘dairy lands, mountain pastures’next step skipped: Swedish säter
- Norwegian Nynorskmodernsæter
- Englishtodaysaeter
The story
The English word is a doublet of sit.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
president, set, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, session, chair, method, resident, settle, assess, nest, possess, siege, niche, exodus, reside, subsidy, sedan, residue, residual, saddle, sediment, nye, insidious, sedentary, dissident, cathode, soot, sedative, obsess, anode, beset, prasad, chaise, presidio, sedate, sessile, 96 more
Today it means
noun A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / saeter