GIFT
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gift¹
- /ɡɪft/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɪft
Where it comes from
From Middle English yifte, ȝift, partly from Old English ġift, ġyft (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Luxembourgish Gëft (“poison”), Vilamovian gejft, gyjft (“poison”), Yiddish גיפֿט (gift, “poison”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gift (“poison”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift. Distantly related to English habit, from Latin habitus.
noun gifts · yift
- Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.
- A talent or natural ability. She had a gift for playing the flute.
- Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing. The office is in the gift of the President.
- A footrace, often a short one with a prize, sometimes with a handicap system whereby runners start from different positions based on their past performance. […] Stawell Gift Committee requested a special train for the gift's one hundredth anniversary celebration but […]
Similar: favor, benefaction, boon, concession, donative, fairing, gift, grant, present, tithing
verb gifts · gifting · gifted · yift
- To give as a gift or donation.
- To give away, to concede easily. Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.
Similar: contribute, donate, give
GIFT²
noun GIFTs
- Acronym of gamete intrafallopian transfer.gamete intrafallopian transfer
