sceatt

English

Noun

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

Alternative forms

sċeat, sċætt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæ͜ɑtt/, [ʃæ͜ɑt]

Noun

sċeatt m

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

   Synonym: mynet

Inflection

Declension of sceatt (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sċeatt	sċeattas
accusative	sċeatt	sċeattas
genitive	sċeattes	sċeatta
dative	sċeatte	sċeattum

Derived terms

• sāwolsċeatt

Descendants

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