Etymograph

English

reshift

From re- + shift.

Formed from re- + shift

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to cut’

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Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną ‘to divide’

Proto-West Germanic *skiftijan

Old English sċiftan ‘to divide’

Middle English schiften ‘to split’

English shift

Today it means

verb To shift again or anew.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “reshift”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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