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語源

From Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈseːf.te/

形容詞

sēfte

1. soft, luxurious
   • c. 1000, The Rune Poem:

     ᚱ byþ on reċyde rinca ġehwylċum sēfte, and swīþhwæt ðām ðe sitteþ on ufan mēare mæġenheardum ofer mīlpaþas.

     Furniture is soft in a house for any of warriors, and [the harness] is well-strong for whom who sits above a horse well hardly over roads.

2. gentle, not harsh
3. easy, pleasant
4. quiet, undisturbed

語形変化

派生語

• sēftnes (“softness”)
• sōfte (“softly”)

派生した語

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

参照

別の表記

• sefth, seveþe
• seofaþe, seofeðe, seofoðe, seoveðe (Early Middle English)

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 seofoþa, seofunda, from Proto-West Germanic *sebunþō, variant of *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô; equivalent to seven (“seven”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛvəð(ə)/, /ˈsɛfθ(ə)/, /ˈsɛft(ə)/

形容詞

sefte

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and Southern or Southwest Midland) seventh

   Synonym: seventhe

参照

• “sē̆venth(e, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.

名詞

sefte

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and Southern or Southwest Midland) One of seven equal parts of a whole; a seventh.

   Synonym: seventhe

参照

• “sē̆venth(e, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.