Old English · adjective

sefte

Normalised sēfte

Part of speech: adjective
IPA: /ˈseːf.te/
Syllables: ˈseːf · te (2 syllables)
Modern English: soft luxurious undisturbed quiet easy harsh

Meaning

soft, luxurious

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.
c. 1000, The Rune Poem:
gentle, not harsh
easy, pleasant
quiet, undisturbed

Declension

Strong declension of sefte
Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēfte	sēftu sēfto	sēfte
Accusative	sēftne	sēfte	sēfte
Genitive	sēftes	sēftre	sēftes
Dative	sēftum	sēftre	sēftum
Instrumental	sēfte	sēftre	sēfte
Plural
Nominative	sēfte	sēfta sēfte	sēftu sēfto
Accusative	sēfte	sēfta sēfte	sēftu sēfto
Genitive	sēftra	sēftra	sēftra
Dative	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum
Instrumental	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum

Weak declension of sefte
Singular
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēfta	sēfte	sēfte
Accusative	sēftan	sēftan	sēfte
Genitive	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Dative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Instrumental	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Plural
Nominative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Accusative	sēftan	sēftan	sēftan
Genitive	sēftra sēftena	sēftra sēftena	sēftra sēftena
Dative	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum
Instrumental	sēftum	sēftum	sēftum

Etymology

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”).

Descendants

soft

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