sceat

== English == === Alternative forms === sceatt, sceatta === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃæt/ Rhymes: -æt Homophones: shat, Shat === Noun === sceat (plural sceats) (numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value). 1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page, In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Cates, Stace, caste, cates, scate, taces == Old English == === Etymology === 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 === IPA(key): /ʃæ͜ɑːt/ Rhymes: -æ͜ɑːt === Noun === sċēat m corner, angle, projection The Seafarer, lines: 59-62 nook, area, region lap, bosom bay ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Descendants ==== English: Sheet