gift
Significat (English)
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- Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
- A talent or natural ability.
- Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
Synonyms
ability
endue
natural endowment
alms given to Buddhist monks
give presents
propriety
yield
inquire about
give freely
usable article
natural features
offering/s
mememto
supe-riors
present a favor
present⫷mn⫸
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɡɪft/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English gift (also yift, yifte, ȝift, ȝeft), partly from Old English ġift (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -th (etymologically yive + -th). Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Saterland Frisian Gift (“gift”), German Low German Gift (“poison”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Danish gift (“gift (obsolete); poison, venom”), Swedish gift (“gift, poison, venom”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift.
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