Etymology

semisoft

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Today it means: Partially soft; partially melted. Full definition →

English soft ← Middle English softe ← Old English sōfte
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*samft(ī)
  6. Old Englishsōfte
  7. Middle Englishsofte
  8. Englishsoft
  9. English todaysemisoft

From semi- + soft.

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