sátt

See also: satt, sätt, sætt, and sått

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sætt, sátt, from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g-. More at saught.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɔʰtː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʰtː

Noun

sátt f (genitive singular sáttar, uncountable)

  1. a reconciliation
  2. a settlement

Declension
Declension of sátt (singular only)
f2s singular
indefinite definite
nominative sátt sáttin
accusative sátt sáttina
dative sátt sáttini
genitive sáttar sáttarinnar

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • í sátt og semju
  • koma til sættar og semju
  • sita væl um sátt/sita illa um sátt

Icelandic

Noun

sátt f (genitive singular sáttar, nominative plural sættir or sáttir)

  1. reconciliation, agreement

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sahtiz.

Alternative forms

Noun

sátt f (genitive sáttar, plural sáttir)

  1. reconciliation, covenant, agreement
Declension
  Declension of sátt (strong i-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sátt sáttin sáttir sáttirnar
accusative sátt sáttina sáttir sáttirnar
dative sátt sáttinni sáttum sáttunum
genitive sáttar sáttarinnar sátta sáttanna
Derived terms
  • sáttaleyfi n (“licence to make an agreement”)
  • sáttalof n (“licence to make an agreement”)
  • sáttan f (“agreement”)
  • sáttarboð n (“an offer of terms”)
  • sáttardómr m (“court of arbitration”)
  • sáttareiðr m (“an oath taken at a sátt”)
  • sáttarfundr m (“a peace-meeting”)
  • sáttargrið n (“truce”)
  • sáttargørð f (“agreement, peace-transactions”)
  • sáttarhald n (“the keeping of an agreement”)
  • sáttarmark n (“a token of peace”)
  • sáttarmaðr m (“peacemaker, umpire”)
  • sáttarmerki n (“a token of peace”)
  • sáttarstefna f (“a peace-meeting”)
  • sáttaumleitan f (“endeavours to bring about peace, mediation”)
  • sáttavandr (“particular as to terms”)
  • sáttband n (“treaty, covenant”)
  • sáttgjarn (“willing to come to terms, conciliatory”)
  • sáttgjarnliga (“in a conciliatory way, placable”)
  • sáttmáli m (“covenant”)
  • sáttmálsbúð f (“the covenant-booth; Tabernacle”)
  • sáttmálslǫg n pl (“the prescriptions of the covenant”)
  • sáttmálsmark n (“a token of peace”)
  • sáttmálsǫrk f (“the ark of the covenant”)
  • sáttmál n (“words of conciliation; agreement, covenant”)
  • sáttr (“reconciled; at peace”)
  • sáttrof n (“breach of an agreement”)
  • sáttvandr (“particular as to terms”)
  • sáttvarr (“careful as to the keeping of an agreement”)
  • sáttvænligr (“promising in respect of an agreement”)

References
  • sátt in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sátt

  1. second-person singular past indicative of sjá
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