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seten

  • noun [ feminine ]
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seten, [n]e; f.
a set, shoot, branch
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  • Setene

    propagines,

    • Ps. Surt. 79, 12
      • .
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v. ymb-seten.
a nursery, plantation
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  • Setin

    pla[n]taria,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 49
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  • Plantunga seten

    plantaria,

    • 65, 76
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  • Ǽghwilc wæstma seten ða ðe ne sette fæder mín

    omnis plantatio quam non plantavit Pater meus,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 13
      • ,
what is planted or set
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  • Gif mon gesíðcundne monnan ádrífe, fordrífe ðý botle næs ðære setene

    (the ejected tenant was not to be deprived of what he had planted (?)

    ; or seten. V.

    he was to be compensated for the cultivation of the land (?),)

    • L. In. 68
      • ;
    • Th. i. 146, 8
      • .
a cultivated place.
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v. land-seten, I. and feldsætennum campo,
  • Ps. Lamb. 77, 12
    • .
planting, cultivation,
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v. land-seten, II.
a setting, putting.
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v. hand-seten.
a stopping,
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v. blód-seten.
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See also inseten.
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v.  setin.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “seten.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27541.

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