saeter

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sed-“to sit”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*sitjaną“to sit”
3. Swedish · borrowed fromsäter“mountain pastures”
4. Old Norse · derived fromsætr
5. Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed fromseter
6. Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed fromsæter
7. English todaysaeter

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.

Words from the same roots