gift

Meaning

dotatie

presentje

δώρο

δωρεά

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɣɪft/

Inherited from Middle Dutch

Inherited from Old Dutch

Borrowed from German

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.