sætur
Icelandic
/ˈsaiːtʏr/
adj
Definitions
- sweet, saccharine, sugary
- sweet, nice, kind
- cute, pretty
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse sœtr derived from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (sweet) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sweh₂dus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *sweh₂dus Proto-Indo-European
- *swéh₂dus Proto-Indo-European
- søt Norwegian Bokmål
- *swōtuz Proto-Germanic
- sött Swedish
- søt Norwegian Nynorsk
- sœtleikr Old Norse
- sœtr Old Norse
- sød Danish
- gómsætur Icelandic
- gómur Icelandic
- suozi Old High German
- swuozi Old High German
- søtur Faroese
- süeze Middle High German
- *swōtī gmw-pro
- *suoti Old Dutch
- *swādus, *swādos Proto-Celtic
- swoti Old Saxon
- süeß Alemannic German
- söter Old Swedish
- søt Westrobothnian