different between slaught vs saught

English

Etymology

From Middle English slaught, slagt, sla?t, from Old English slæht, sleaht, sleht, slieht (“a stroke, a striking, a flash of lightning, slaughter, murder, death by violence, the deadly stroke of disease, battle, what is to be killed, animals for slaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *slaht?, *slahtiz (“beating, hitting, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *slek- (“to beat, pound”).

Cognate with Dutch slacht (“slaughter”), German Schlacht (“killing, battle”), Swedish slakt (“slaughter”), Icelandic slátta (“slaughter”). Related to English slay.

Noun

slaught (plural slaughts)

1. Killing; slaughter.

Derived terms

• manslaught (whence manslaughter)
• onslaught

English

Alternative forms

• saucht (Scotland)

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 *seh?g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).

Noun

saught (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal, archaic) Reconciliation; peace; ease.

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.

Related terms

• settle

Adjective

saught (comparative more saught, superlative most saught)

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

Anagrams

• aughts, ghauts