schiften

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxɪftə(n)/

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schiften

1. (intransitive) to separate, to divide itself into separate layers or substances

   Deze saus gaat schiften als je niet blijft roeren.

   This sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.

• Afrikaans: skif

• geschift (“crazy”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪftn̩/

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schiften (weak, third-person singular present schiftet, past tense schiftete, past participle geschiftet, auxiliary haben)

1. (nautical) to jibe, gybe (shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other)

• Schiftung

• schyfte, schifte, scuften, shiften, schyftyn

From Old English sċiftan, from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną; equivalent to schyft +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Doublet of skift.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiftən/

schiften

1. To split, cut up, sunder.
2. To share out, redistribute, split equally.
3. To break apart, ruin, smash, make dissolute.
4. To choose, pick, select.
5. To ready, prepare, rectify, sort.
6. To leave; to change place.
7. (rare) To shift, modify, alter.

• schyft
• schyftynge

• English: shift
• Scots: shift, schift

• “shiften, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.