sceatt
English
editNoun
editsceatt (plural sceatts)
- 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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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *skatt (“cattle, treasure”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsċeatt m
Inflection
editDeclension of sceatt (strong a-stem)
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