gift

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
2. A talent or natural ability.
3. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
4. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

Verb

1. To give as a gift or donation.
2. To give away, to concede easily.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ɡɪft/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

From Middle English gift (also yift, yifte, ȝift, ȝeft), partly from Old English ġift (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -th (etymologically yive + -th).
Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Saterland Frisian Gift (“gift”), German Low German Gift (“poison”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Danish gift (“gift (obsolete); poison, venom”), Swedish gift (“gift, poison, venom”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift.

Câu

Crampton donated a clock as a personal gift to the church .

Crampton tặng một chiếc đồng hồ như một món quà cá nhân cho nhà thờ.