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English
Noun
sceatt (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
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skatt (“cattle, treasure”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sċeatt m
- treasure, money, wealth
- late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
Ne sċeall nān godes þeġn for sċeattum riht dēman, ac healdan þone dōm ġif godes man sȳ...- Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...
- a coin or unit of money
- Synonym: mynet
- Laws of King Æthelberht
Ġif feaxfang ġeweorþ, L sċeatta tō bōte.- If hair-seizing should occur, the recompense shall be fifty sceattas.
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