gift

Signification (Anglais)

Fréquence

C1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɣɪft/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

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.

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