sceaft

sceaft

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of schaft (“creation”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃæ͜ɑft/

From Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”), potentially from a root *(s)ke(H)p- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Old Norse skapt.

sċeaft m

1. shaft (of an arrow or spear), pole

Strong a-stem:

• wælsċeaft (“weapon-shaft”)

• Middle English: schaft, scæft, scaft, shaft, sschaft, scheft, sheft, shafft, schafft, chafte, saft, shaffet, schafte, shafte
  • English: shaft
  • Scots: schaft, shaft

From sċieppan; compare ġesċeaft.

sċeaft f (nominative plural sċeafta)

1. creation, origin
2. a creation, creature, something created

Strong i-stem:

• Middle English: schaft, schafte, shaft, shapte

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sceaft”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sceaft”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.