gjetar

• gjætar (bracket form)

gjetar m (definite singular gjetaren, indefinite plural gjetarar, definite plural gjetarane)

1. someone who tends animals like sheep or goats; a shepherd or goatherd

   Heile sommaren gjekk han på fjellet og var gjetar.

   The entire summer he was in the mountains and acted as a shepherd.

• hyrding
• hjuring

• gjete

Derived from the verb gjet (“guard (cattle) grazing, walking in grassland with livestock”), from Old Norse gæta. Akin to Old Swedish gætir and Norwegian gjætar

gjetar m

1. herdsman

• gjetargjänt (“herdgirl”)
• gjetarpójk (“herdboy”)
• gjetarstint (“herdgirl”)