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Old English sōfte (inherited)
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Old English sēfte (mention)
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Middle English softe (inherited)
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West Frisian sêft (cognate)
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Proto-Germanic *sōmiz (mention)
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Proto-West Germanic *samftī (inherited)
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Proto-Indo-European *sem- (root)
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Proto-Indo-European *semtio- (mention)
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Proto-Indo-European *sem- (mention)
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German Low German sacht (cognate)
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Old Norse sœmr (cognate)
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Old Norse samr (mention)
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Italian soft (borrowed)
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Japanese ソフト (borrowed)
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Norwegian Bokmål bløt (link)
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Vietnamese mềm (semantic loan)