sciftan

== Old English == === Alternative forms === sċyftan === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skēy- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). === Verb === sċiftan to divide, separate into shares to appoint, ordain, arrange ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ġesċiftan tōsċiftan ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: schiften Scots: schift, shift English: shift → Vietnamese: quần chíp === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sċiftan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.