adret
The sun-facing side of a mountainThe sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, this is typically the south-facing slope.
» The adret fields yielded abundant harvests.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesThe sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, this is typically the south-facing slope.
Sommerhalde
Examples
5 sentencesThe adret fields yielded abundant harvests.
Vineyards flourished on the sunny adret slopes.
Sheep grazed on the sunny adret meadows.
Farmers planted crops on the fertile adret slopes.
Farmers in the region planted vineyards on the adret slopes to maximize sun exposure.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French adret or Occitan adret, adré, adrech, adreit (“sun-facing side of a mBorrowed from French adret or Occitan adret, adré, adrech, adreit (“sun-facing side of a mountain”), from Old Occitan adreg, adreit, from a (“to, towards”) (from Latin ad (“to, towards”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + dreg, dreit (“just; right”) (from Latin dīrēctus (“direct, straight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself; just, right”)); compare French adroit.
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