gift

Meaning

Noun

donation; something given (away) voluntarily

Adj

poisonous, toxic, venomous

Concepts

gift

donation

present

poison

venom

contribution

endowment

offering

boon

largess

grant

toxin

bestowal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɣɪft/

Etymology

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.