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.

Noun

sátt f (genitive singular sáttar, uncountable)

a reconciliation
a settlement

Declension

Declension of sátt (singular only)
f2s	singular
f2s	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

Old Norse

Alternative forms

sætt f

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahtiz.

Noun

sátt f (genitive sáttar, plural sáttir)

reconciliation, covenant, agreement

Declension

Declension of sátt (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
feminine	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

Terms derived from sátt

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”)
sáttmál n (“words of conciliation; agreement, covenant”)

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”)
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.

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