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

• semja
• sætt

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

• “sátt” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sahtiz.

Alternative forms

• sætt f

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