gift

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

donation; something given (away) voluntarily

Adj

poisonous, toxic, venomous

Concepts

don

cadeau

présent

poison

venin

donation

dotation

largesses

contribution

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɣɪft/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle Dutch gifte, from Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. Equivalent to geven (“to give”) + -t (“verbal noun”).
The words gif and vergif, both meaning “poison”, derive from the same source as gift. The sense “poison” may have originated as a shortening of vergift or may have been borrowed from German Gift.