Trift

Trift

German

Etymology

From Middle High German trift (“driving, floating, way of living”), from Old High German *trift, from Proto-Germanic *driftiz, deverbal from *drībaną (“to drive”), whence German treiben. Doublet of Drift (from Low German), whose nautical senses were also added to Trift as semantic loans (now uncommon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁɪft/
  • Rhymes: -ɪft
  • Homophone: trifft

Noun

Trift f (genitive Trift, plural Triften)

  1. path on which livestock is driven, cattle track
  2. (regional, southern) pastureland of lesser quality, grazing, sheepwalk
  3. log driving, timber floating
  4. dated form of Drift (“current of the sea, drifting, gradual movement, debris”)

Declension

Declension of Trift [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Trift die Triften
genitive einer der Trift der Triften
dative einer der Trift den Triften
accusative eine die Trift die Triften

Derived terms

  • Alpentrift
  • Holztrift
  • Koppeltrift
  • Schaftrift
  • Triftalm
  • Trifteis
  • Triftenblume
  • Triftrecht
  • Triftströmung
  • Triftweg
  • Triftweide
  • Triftwurz
  • Viehtrift

See also

Further reading

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