Old High German

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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semfti

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

Etymology 2

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semfti (soft) +‎

Noun

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semftī f

  1. softness
Declension
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References

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