Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo give as a gift or donation. · To give away, to concede easily.
From Middle English yifte, ȝift, partly from Old English ġift, ġyft (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Luxembourgish Gëft (“poison”), Vilamovian gejft, gyjft (“poison”), Yiddish גיפֿט (gift, “poison”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gift (“poison”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift. Distantly related to English habit, from Latin habitus.
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- Root classification mention*gʰebʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionyifteenm
- Inherited-form mentionġiftang
- Derivation mentiongiptnon · gift, present, wedding
- Inherited-form mention*giftizgem-pro · gift
- Word-formation componentgiveen
- Word-formation component-ten
- Word-formation componentyiveen
- Cognate mentionjeftefy · gift
- Cognate mentiongiftnl · gift
- Cognate mentionGiftde · poison
- Cognate mentionGëftlb · poison
- Cognate mentiongejftwym
- Cognate mentionגיפֿטyi · poison
- Cognate mentiongiftis · gift
- Doublet mentionyiften
- Cognate mentionhabiten
- Cognate mentionhabitusla
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