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Deter vs Seter - What's the difference?

deter | seter |

As a verb deter

is to prevent something from happening.

As a noun seter is

a summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.

deter

English

Verb

(deterr)
  • To prevent something from happening.
  • To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 10.
  • we have in following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise

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    seter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.
  • * 1964 , Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway , page 114:
  • Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
  • * 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
  • In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters' in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the ' seters .
  • * 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
  • For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
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  • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun