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==English==

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{alt form|en|sceat}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1872|author=E. William Robertson|title=Historical Essays in Connexion with the Land, the Church &c|page=133
|passage=The penny-gavel in Kent was once exacted in half-'''sceatts''', as has been already pointed out, giving to the acre in Kent a value of five deniers.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1902|author=Frederic Seebohm|title=Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law
|passage=For if, according to the view of Schmid and others, the '''sceatt''' were to be taken as a farthing or ''quarter'' of a '''sceatt''', the correspondence of Kentish with Continental wergelds and payments ''pro fredo'' would be altogether destroyed.}}

==Old English==
==Old English==

===Alternative forms===
{{alt|ang|sċeat|sċætt}}


===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{dercat|ang|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=1}}
From {{proto|gem-pro|skattaz|cattle, treasure|lang=ang}}, from {{proto|ine-pro|skat-|to jump, hop, splash out|lang=ang}}. Cognate with Old Frisian [[skett]] ‘money, cattle’, Old Saxon [[skat]] (Dutch [[schat]]), Old High German [[scaz]] (German [[Schatz]] ‘treasure’), Old Norse [[skattr]] (Danish {{term|skat|lang=da}}, Norwegian [[skatt]]), Gothic {{l|got|𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐍃}}.
From {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*skatt|t=cattle, treasure}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/ʃæɑtː/|lang=ang}}
* {{ang-IPA|sċeatt}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{ang-noun|g=m|pl=sceattas}}
{{ang-noun|m|head=sċeatt}}


# [[treasure]], [[money]], [[wealth]]
# {{topics|ang|Money}}[[treasure]], [[money]], [[wealth]]
# a [[coin]] or unit of money
# a [[coin]] or unit of money
#: {{syn|ang|mynet}}


====Descendants====
====Inflection====
{{ang-decl-noun-a-m|sċeatt}}
* Middle English: {{l|enm|schat}}


====Derived terms====
[[ja:sceatt]]
* {{l|ang|ċiriċsċeatt}}
* {{l|ang|sāwolsċeatt}}

====Descendants====
* {{desctree|enm|schat}}
* {{desc|en|sceat|bor=1}}

Latest revision as of 17:15, 20 June 2024

English

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Noun

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sceatt (plural sceatts)

  1. Alternative form of sceat
    • 1872, E. William Robertson, Historical Essays in Connexion with the Land, the Church &c, page 133:
      The penny-gavel in Kent was once exacted in half-sceatts, as has been already pointed out, giving to the acre in Kent a value of five deniers.
    • 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law:
      For if, according to the view of Schmid and others, the sceatt were to be taken as a farthing or quarter of a sceatt, the correspondence of Kentish with Continental wergelds and payments pro fredo would be altogether destroyed.

Old English

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Alternative forms

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sċeat, sċætt

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *skatt (“cattle, treasure”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃæ͜ɑtt/, [ʃæ͜ɑt]

Noun

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sċeatt m

  1. treasure, money, wealth
  2. a coin or unit of money
    Synonym: mynet

Inflection

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Declension of sceatt (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative sċeatt sċeattas
accusative sċeatt sċeattas
genitive sċeattes sċeatta
dative sċeatte sċeattum

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: schat, sat, schet, scet
    • → Medieval Latin: scata, sceatta
  • → English: sceat
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