gif
English
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editNoun
editgif (plural gifs)
- Alternative letter-case form of GIF
Verb
editgif (third-person singular simple present gifs, present participle gifing, simple past and past participle gifed)
- Alternative letter-case form of GIF
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editEtymology 1
editFrom Dutch gif, from earlier gift, from Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.
Noun
editgif (plural giwwe or gifte, diminutive giffie)
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Dutch gift, from Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. Same etymology as above, but the two variants gradually acquired different meanings in modern Dutch.
Noun
editgif (plural gifte)
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editDutch
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editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.
The word gift derives from the same source, and the words were not formally distinguished until early modern Dutch.
Noun
editgif n (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)
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editEtymology 2
editNoun
editgif m (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)
Gothic
editRomanization
editgif
- Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐍆
Old English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *jabē, *jabu, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”) with anomalous apocope. The expected form is attested once as ġyfe in the early 7th-century Law of Æthelberht, if not simply a scribal error.
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editConjunction
editġif
- if
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
- ...ac hi ge-eacniacð heora wita, gif hi ær ende ne cyrrað.
- ...but they add to their punishments, if they turn not before the end..
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"
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editNoun
editgif m (plural gifs)
Swedish
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edit- Rhymes: -iːv
Verb
editgif
- imperative of gifva
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