Etymology

English un- + saʒte.

PGmc Ancestor

*saxt- or *sanxt-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

sáttr 'agreeing, at peace, reconciled'; cp. úsáttr 'disagreeing', sátt (n.) 'settlement, agreement, concord, peace' and sætt (n.) 'reconciliation, agreement'
(ONP sáttr (adj.); cp. ósáttr (adj.), sátt (sb.), sætt (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far sáttur, Icel sáttur, ODan sattær, OSw satter

OE Cognate

seht, seaht 'reconciled, at peace'; cp. unseht 'not agreed, hostile'

Phonological and morphological markers

[ON / ɑ:/ < PGmc */anx/] (may not be applicable)

Summary category

B1

Attestation

First attested in late OE a1121 Peterb.Chron. (LdMisc 636) and a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom. (Vsp D.14), then widespread in ME, though especially frequent in N texts.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Erk 8

Bibliography

MED unsaught(e (ppl.) , OED unsaught (adj.) , HTOED ; see further saʒte.