transhumance

English

WOTD – 20 August 2013

Etymology

Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/

Noun

transhumance (countable and uncountable, plural transhumances)

1. The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
   • 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, "Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly," New York Times (retrieved 20 Aug 2014):

     There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.

Translations

the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山牧季移 (shānmùjìyí), 季節移牧／季节移牧 (jìjié yí mù), 季节移牧 (jìjié yímù), 季節性牲畜移動／季节性牲畜移动 (jìjiéxìng shēngchù yídòng), 季节性牲畜移动 (jìjiéxìng shēngxù yídòng), 季節性遷移放牧／季节性迁移放牧 (jìjiéxìng qiānyí fàngmù), 季节性迁移放牧 (jìjiéxìng qiānyí fàngmù)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: veetrek m
• Finnish: laitumenvaihto
• French: transhumance (fr) f
• German: please add this translation if you can
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• Italian: transumanza (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: transumância (pt) f
• Russian: перегон скота (peregon skota), отгон скота (otgon skota)
• Spanish: trashumancia f
• Swedish: transhumans c

Further reading

• transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From transhumer +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

transhumance f (plural transhumances)

1. transhumance (seasonal movement of people and grazing animals)

Further reading

• “transhumance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.