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Meaning

poison, venom, toxin

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɣɪf/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht, from Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. The word gift derives from the same source, and the words were not formally distinguished until early modern Dutch.

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