semfti
Old High German
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *samftī (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).[1]
Adjective
semfti
- soft
Alternative forms
- samfti, senfti
Derived terms
- semftī
Descendants
- Middle High German: semfte, senfte, sanfte
- Alemannic German: sanft
- German: sanft
Etymology 2
semfti (“soft”) + -ī
Noun
semftī f
- softness
Declension
Declension of semftī (īn-stem)
| case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | semftī | — |
| accusative | semftī | — |
| genitive | semftī | — |
| dative | semftī | — |
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “samÞu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426