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sefte

sefte

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Middle English

Noun

sefte

Alternative form of seventhe

Old English

Alternative forms

sœ̄fte, sōfte, sōft, sēft

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *samftī (“at the same height, level, flat, smooth, not rough”) (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈseːf.te/

Adjective

sēfte

Declension

Declension of sēfte — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēfte	sēftu, sēfto	sēfte
Accusative	sēftne	sēfte	sēfte
Genitive	sēftes	sēftre	sēftes
Dative	sēftum	sēftre	sēftum
Instrumental	sēfte	sēftre	sēfte
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēfte	sēfta, sēfte	sēftu, sēfto
Accusative	sēfte	sēfta, sēfte	sēftu, sēfto
Genitive	sēftra	sēftra	sēftra
Dative	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum
Instrumental	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum

Declension of sēfte — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēfta	sēfte	sēfte
Accusative	sēftan	sēftan	sēfte
Genitive	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Dative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Instrumental	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Accusative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Genitive	sēftra, sēftena	sēftra, sēftena	sēftra, sēftena
Dative	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum
Instrumental	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum

Derived terms

sēftnes (“softness”)
sōfte (“softly”)

Descendants

Middle English: softe, soufte, zofte (Kent)
- English: soft
- Scots: saft
- Yola: zaft

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “samÞu-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

sēft

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *samftī (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈseːfte/

Adjective

sēfte

soft

Descendants

West Frisian: sêft

Adverb

sēfte

softly

References

Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “samÞu-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426

Plautdietsch

Verb

sefte

to sigh
to utter a sigh