gift

Senso (Inglese)

talento

strenna

dotatie

presentje

δώρο

δωρεά

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɣɪft/

Ereditato da olandese medio

Ereditato da Old Dutch

Preso in prestito da tedesco

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.