skift

Middle English

noun

Definitions

share, portion, lot
fate
effort, attempt, try

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse skipta, skipti (shift, distribution, change) derived from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną (arrange, put in order).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*skiftijaną

Gloss

arrange, put in order

Concept

Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*skeyb- Proto-Indo-European
skifte Norwegian Bokmål
*skifijaną Proto-Germanic
*skiftijaną Proto-Germanic
skifte Norwegian Nynorsk
sciftan Old English
sċiftan Old English
arfskipti Old Norse
skipta Old Norse
skipti Old Norse
skifte Danish
*skiftian Old Saxon
skipta Old Swedish
skifta Old Frisian