Feminine

Trift

Meaning

  1. (feminine) grassy track, cattle track
  2. (feminine) pastureland, grazing, sheepwalk
  3. (feminine) log driving, timber floating

Pronounced as (IPA)
/tʁɪft/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German trift (“driving, floating, acting, way of living”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz, cognate with English drift. Doublet of Drift. Derived from the verb *drībaną (“to drive”). See treiben for more.

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