sceat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sceat (plural sceats)
- (numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver.
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *skautaz. Cognate with Old Frisian skat, Middle Dutch scoot (Dutch schoot), Old High German scōz (German Schoß), Old Norse skaut (Danish skød), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰 (skauta).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sċēat m
- corner, angle, projection
- The Seafarer, lines: 59-62
- Min modsefa || mid mereflode
ofer hwæles eþel || hweorfeð wide,
eorþan sceatas, || cymeð eft to me
gifre ond grædig ...- My spirit, amid sea-flood,
over the whale's estate, wanders far
[to] the corners of the Earth, then comes [back] to me
wanting and unsatisfied ...
- My spirit, amid sea-flood,
- The Seafarer, lines: 59-62
- nook, area, region
- lap, bosom
- bay
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