setem

Pronunciation: /səˈtem/

“setem” is a Malay word. Its meaning in English:

noun

stamp, a small designed piece of paper with a face value used to prepay postage or other costs such as tax or licence fees.

Etymology

Borrowed from English stamp, from Middle English stampen (“to pound, crush”), from assumed Old English *stampian, variant of Old English stempan (“to crush, pound, pound in mortar, stamp”), from Proto-Germanic *stampōną, *stampijaną (“to trample, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *stemb- (“to trample down”).

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