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

  1. soft
Alternative forms
  • samfti, senfti
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle High German: semfte, senfte, sanfte

Etymology 2

semfti (“soft”) +‎ -ī

Noun

semftī f

  1. softness
Declension
Declension of semftī (īn-stem)
case singular plural
nominative semftī —
accusative semftī —
genitive semftī —
dative semftī —

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “samÞu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426
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