Home
Random
Log in
Settings
Donations
About Wiktionary
Disclaimers
Search
Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/
samftō
Language
Watch
Edit
This
Proto-West Germanic
entry contains
reconstructed terms and roots
. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly
attested
, but are hypothesized to have existed based on
comparative
evidence.
Contents
1
Proto-West Germanic
1.1
Etymology
1.2
Adverb
1.2.1
Descendants
Proto-West Germanic
edit
Etymology
edit
From
*samftī
+
*-ō
.
Adverb
edit
*samftō
softly
,
gently
Descendants
edit
Old English:
sōfte
Middle English:
softe
,
soft
English:
soft
Old Saxon:
sāfto
Middle Low German:
sachte
German Low German:
Altmärkisch:
sacht
,
sachte
→
Norwegian:
sagt
,
sagte
→
Swedish:
sakta
(
archaic
,
dialectal
)
→
Danish:
sagt
,
sagte
Old High German:
samfto
Middle High German:
sanfte
,
samfte
Categories
:
Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-ō (adverb)
Proto-West Germanic lemmas
Proto-West Germanic adverbs
Hidden categories:
Proto-West Germanic entries without References header
Proto-West Germanic entries without References or Further reading header
Pages with 1 entry