gif
English
Pronunciation
- see GIF
Noun
gif (plural gifs)
- Alternative letter-case form of GIF
Verb
gif (third-person singular simple present gifs, present participle gifing, simple past and past participle gifed)
- Alternative letter-case form of GIF
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology 1
Noun
gif (plural giwwe or gifte, diminutive giffie)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
gif (plural gifte)
Synonyms
- geskenk
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /Ι£Ιͺf/
- Hyphenation: gif
- Rhymes: -Ιͺf
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. The word gift derives from the same source and the words were not formally distinguished until early modern Dutch.
Noun
gif n (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- gifbeker
- gifmenger
- gifmoord
- giftand
- giftig
- tegengif
- vergiftigen
Etymology 2
Noun
gif m (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)
Gothic
Romanization
gif
- Romanization of π²πΉπ
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *jabΕi (βdoubtβ), from Proto-Indo-European *i-. Akin to Old Frisian ief, ef, gef, Old Saxon ef, of, Old Dutch of (Dutch of), Old High German ibu, oba (German ob), Old Norse ef, if (possibly Swedish om), Gothic πΎπ°π±π°πΉ (jabai). Also Old High German iba (βdoubt, conditionβ), Icelandic efi, ef, ifi, if (βdoubtβ). Possibly also Swedish jΓ€v and Albanian po (βif, affirmative utteranceβ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jif/
Conjunction
Δ‘if
Descendants
Spanish
Noun
gif m (plural gifs)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iΛv
Verb
gif
- imperative of gifva.