schiften
Middle English
/ˈʃiftən/
verb
Definitions
- To split, cut up, sunder.
- To share out, redistribute, split equally.
- To break apart, ruin, smash, make dissolute.
- To choose, pick, select.
- To ready, prepare, rectify, sort.
- To leave; to change place.
- (rare) To shift, modify, alter.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċiftan (divide, separate into shares, appoint, organise, arrange, ordain) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną (arrange, put in order) affix from Middle English schyft.
Origin
Middle English
schyft
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- airshift English
- backshift English
- blameshift English
- blueshift English
- downshift English
- foreshift English
- frameshift English
- lightshift English
- loanshift English
- midshift English
- multishift English
- nymshift English
- overshift English
- phaseshift English
- placeshift English
- powershift English
- preshift English
- rankshift English
- redshift English
- reshift English
- shift English
- shiftable English
- shiftee English
- shifter English
- shiftest English
- shifteth English
- shiftful English
- shiftless English
- shiftlike English
- shiftmate English
- shiftogram English
- shiftwork English
- shifty English
- speedshift English
- stickshift English
- subshift English
- supershift English
- timeshift English
- transshift English
- undershift English
- unshift English
- upshift English
- *skeyb- Proto-Indo-European
- *skiftijaną Proto-Germanic
- シフト Japanese
- sciftan Old English
- sċiftan Old English
- schyft Middle English
- schyftynge Middle English
- skipti Old Norse
- sif Indonesian
- quần chíp Vietnamese
- quần sịp Vietnamese
- *skiftian Old Saxon
- skifta Old Frisian