saeta

Meaning

1. (declension-1, feminine) a bristle, (rough) hair on an animal
2. (Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine) silk (the meaning of most descendants in modern languages)

Concepts

hair

bristle

fur

mane

pelage

pelt

silk

whisker

pilus

yure

riah

dust bunny

Synonyms

pilus

juba

sericum

acantha

seta

vibrissa

saetula

Translations

cabelo

cheveu

capelli

Borste

soie

seda

pèl

bigoti

vibrissa

crin

Borsten

Haar

Haare

Mähne

llaneta

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsae̯.ta]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂it-o/eh₂-, *sh₂éyt-o/eh₂-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Compare Old High German seid (“cord”), Old Norse seior, Czech síť (“net”), Russian сеть (setʹ, “net, mesh”), Old Church Slavonic сѣть (sětĭ, “trap, snare, net”), Lithuanian sietas (“tie”), Old Prussian saytan (“belt, strap”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬈𐬙𐬎 (haetu, “dam”), and Sanskrit सेतु (sétu, “bridge, fetter, band”).