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/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• 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

• triftig (not related)

Further reading

• “Trift”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Trift” in Duden online
• “Trift” in Duden online
• “Trift” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.