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setu

“setu” is an Estonian word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a Seto person

adjective

  1. Seto

Etymology

Most likely from a cognate form of the pronoun see (“this, that”), found in the Seto language - seo, setä, which was deemed unusual and became an ethnonym. See also setukas.

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