soft

(Îngilîzî)

Berevajî
hard
Pircarînî

B1
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/sɒft/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.

Related words

tîl

نهرم

هێمن

tîþ

şîrîn

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