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saught

saught

English

Alternative forms

  • saucht (Scotland)

Noun

saught ‎(uncountable)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Reconciliation; peace.

Verb

saught ‎(third-person singular simple present saughts, present participle saughting, simple past and past participle saughted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To reconcile; become reconciled.

Adjective

saught ‎(comparative more saught, superlative most saught)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Reconciled; agreed; at one.

Etymology

From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht ‎(“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz ‎(“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- ‎(“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Icelandic sátt ‎(“reconciliation, settlement”).

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