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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ɣɪft/

Ji Middle Dutch mîras hatiye girtin

Ji Old Dutch mîras hatiye girtin

Ji almanî hatiye wergirtin

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.