"seift" meaning in All languages combined

See seift on Wiktionary

Noun [Irish]

IPA: /ʃɛfʲtʲ/
Etymology: From English shift in its archaic sense “contrivance, device to try when other methods fail”, from Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, appoint, arrange”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną. Etymology templates: {{bor|ga|en|shift}} English shift, {{m-g|contrivance, device to try when other methods fail}} “contrivance, device to try when other methods fail”, {{der|ga|enm|schiften}} Middle English schiften, {{der|ga|ang|sċiftan|t=to divide, appoint, arrange}} Old English sċiftan (“to divide, appoint, arrange”), {{der|ga|gem-pro|*skiftijaną}} Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|seifte|||||||nominative plural|seifteanna|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} seift f (genitive singular seifte, nominative plural seifteanna), {{ga-noun|f|~e|~eanna}} seift f (genitive singular seifte, nominative plural seifteanna) Inflection templates: {{ga-decl-f2|se|ift|ifte|pl=ifteanna}}, {{ga-mut}} Forms: seifte [genitive, singular], seifteanna [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], seift [indefinite, nominative, singular], seifteanna [indefinite, nominative, plural], a sheift [indefinite, singular, vocative], a sheifteanna [indefinite, plural, vocative], seifte [genitive, indefinite, singular], seifteanna [genitive, indefinite, plural], seift [dative, indefinite, singular], seifteanna [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an tseift [definite, nominative, singular], na seifteanna [definite, nominative, plural], na seifte [definite, genitive, singular], na seifteanna [definite, genitive, plural], leis an tseift [dative, definite, singular], don tseift [dative, definite, singular], leis na seifteanna [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], seift [mutation, mutation-radical], sheift [lenition, mutation], tseift [lenition, mutation], - [eclipsis, mutation]
  1. contrivance, measure (action to achieve some purpose) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-seift-ga-noun-KiUUwadx
  2. fig leaf (anything intended to conceal something undesirable) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-seift-ga-noun-Ub6X-9s8 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: seibht, seibhte [obsolete], seifte Derived forms: seifteoir, seiftigh, seiftiúil

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}

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    "Irish feminine nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms borrowed from English",
    "Irish terms derived from English",
    "Irish terms derived from Middle English",
    "Irish terms derived from Old English",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Irish terms with IPA pronunciation"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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