sanft

From Middle High German semfte, senfte, sanfte, from Old High German semfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī).

sanft

1. (Uri) easy, especially of a physical task

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 39.

From Middle High German semfte, senfte, sanfte, from Old High German semfti, from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (compare Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóm-tu-, possibly from *sem- (“one, whole”).[1] Doublet of sacht. Cognate with English soft.

• IPA^(key): /zanft/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): [zaɱft] (widespread, especially northern and central Germany)
• IPA^(key): /sɑnft/ (Austria)

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sanft (strong nominative masculine singular sanfter, comparative sanfter, superlative am sanftesten)

1. gentle

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• “sanft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “sanft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “sanft” in Duden online