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German term or phrase:	Sennerin
English translation:	Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman
Entered by:	Angelika Joast

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12:34pm May 16, 2005

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German term or phrase: Sennerin

Eine Sennerin hütet auf einer Alm das Vieh von anderen Bauern (meistens nur während des Sommers) und verarbeitet die Milch zu Käse und Butter.

According to the dictionaries it's ***dairymaid*** . But a dairymaid is described as a woman or girl who works in a dairy. And that's just not what a ***Sennerin*** is or is it?

Angelika Joast

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Questions: 224 (all closed)
Answers: 400

United States

Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman

Explanation:
Duden/Oxford

Sennerin die; Sennerin, Sennerinnen (bayr., österr.) Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman

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4 +5

Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman

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female person that takes care of the livestock on the mountain

Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman

Explanation:
Duden/Oxford

Sennerin die; Sennerin, Sennerinnen (bayr., österr.) Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman

Textklick
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 7

Note from asker to answerer

thanks for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Darin Fitzpatrick

0 min

-> Thanks Darin

agree

Kim Metzger: Or dairymaid.

1 min

-> Cheers Kim. (Most of the ones I have seen have been of a ripe age. Even saw one smoking a pipe once ;-)

agree

Kathinka van de Griendt: well ... I smoke a pipe and I'm certainly not a Sennerin - lol

1 hr

-> Thanks. It would be ungentlemanly to ask whether you are a maid or a woman, so I'll go for the default setting of 'lady' ;-)

agree

Gareth McMillan: Dairy woman is fine. As long as she doesn't drop her fag ash in the milk.

5 hrs

-> Ah, Mr.McMillan emerges! For an illustration, look below "Sperkäse" at: http://www.hexenkueche.de/monate03/01mae.html

agree

Jeannette Bauroth: again, or dairymaid

6 hrs

-> Thanks. I won't buy 'maid' though. Antoinette suggests there is more involved to the task. (OED: "dairymaid: employee of a dairy"). A concept that is not easily translated; suggesting to a 'Sennerin' that she were an employee is contra-indicated IMHO ;-)

26 mins confidence:

female person that takes care of the livestock on the mountain

Explanation:
Although I agree with the previously received answers, I want to point out that the Sennerin is the person that takes care of the livestock while the latter is on the mountain i.e. during the summer months. This is the principal meaning of the term.
My two cents.

Antoinette-M. Sixt Ruth
United States
Native speaker of:

German,

English

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German: Sennerin

English translation: Alpine herdswoman and dairywoman