gingifer

Old English

Alternative forms

• gingiber, gingifere

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō.

Noun

gingifer f

1. ginger

Descendants

• Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French)
  • English: ginger
  • Scots: ginger, ginge
  • → Irish: sinséar
  • → Scottish Gaelic: dinnsear
  • → Manx: jinshar
  • → Welsh: sinsir

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gingifer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.