skift
English
Noun
skift (plural skifts)
- (Appalachia) A light dusting of snow.
- 2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
- A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.
- 2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
Middle English
Etymology
Old Norse skipta (verb) and Old Norse skipti (noun), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną.
Noun
skift (plural skifts)
- share, portion, lot
- There be many knyghtes that hath envy to us; Therefore whan we shall mete at the day of justis there woll be harde skyffte for us. — Malory
- fate
- effort, attempt, try
- Make ye as good skyffte as ye can, ye shall bere this lady with you on horsebak unto the Pope of Rome. — Malory
Verb
skift (third-person singular simple present skifteth, present participle skiftende, skiftynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle skifted)
- To divide, share, distribute, divide up; also, be divided
- To disperse, scatter ~ in sonder,
- To give a fair share ~ even,
- even skifted, evenly matched in number, in equal strength
- To arrange, ordain, cause to occur, rule, manage
- Grete godd wolde so wisely skifte all thynges. — The Prose Life of Alexander
- To protect, save
- To evade, be rid of.
- be skifted of, She was aferde of hym..and she cowde not be skyfte … of hym by no meane. — Malory
Conjugation
Conjugation of skift (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From the verb skifte
Noun
skift n (definite singular skiftet, indefinite plural skift, definite plural skifta or skiftene)
Derived terms
Terms derived from skift
Etymology 2
Verb
skift
- imperative of skifte
References
- “skift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb skifte
Noun
skift n (definite singular skiftet, indefinite plural skift, definite plural skifta)
Derived terms
Terms derived from skift
Verb
skift
- imperative of skifta
References
- “skift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
skift n
Declension
Declension of skift | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | skift | skiftet | skift | skiften |
Genitive | skifts | skiftets | skifts | skiftens |
See also
West Frisian
Etymology
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Noun
skift n (plural skiften, diminutive skiftsje)
- order (taxonomy)
Further reading
- “skift”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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