Noun: sceat
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | sċēat |
| Plural | sċēatas |
Genitive
| Singular | sċēates |
| Plural | sċēata |
Dative
| Singular | sċēate |
| Plural | sċēatum |
Accusative
| Singular | sċēat |
| Plural | sċēatas |
Sample Sentences
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Min modsefa || mid mereflode
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ofer hwæles eþel || hweorfeð wide,
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eorþan sceatas, || cymeð eft to me (My spirit, amid sea-flood,
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over the whale's estate, wanders far
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[to] the corners of the Earth, then comes [back] to me
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wanting and unsatisfied ...) [The Seafarer, lines: 59-62]
Nouns inflected like sceat
sceat,
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). See: Dutch Nouns '
schoot', German Nouns '
Schoß', Danish Nouns '
skød'.
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