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gif (plural gifs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF

gif (third-person singular simple present gifs, present participle gifing, simple past and past participle gifed)

1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF

• FGI, Fig, GFI, IGF, fig, fig.

gif (plural giwwe or gifte, diminutive giffie)

1. poison; a poisonous substance

• giftig
• vergif

gif (plural gifte)

1. gift; present

• geskenk

• IPA^(key): /ɣɪf/
• Hyphenation: gif
• Rhymes: -ɪf

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.

gif n (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)

1. poison, venom, toxin

• (poison): vergif, venijn, gift

• gifbeker
• gifmenger
• gifmoord
• giftand
• giftig
• tegengif
• vergiftigen

gif m (plural giffen, diminutive gifje n)

1. (computing) GIF (image format)

gif

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐍆

From Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”), 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 𐌾𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹 (jabai). Also Old High German iba (“doubt, condition”), Icelandic efi, ef, ifi, if (“doubt”). Possibly also Swedish jäv and Albanian po (“if, affirmative utterance”).

• IPA^(key): /jif/

ġif

1. if, whether

• ēalā ġif

• English: if
• Scots: gin

gif m (plural gifs)

1. GIF

• Rhymes: -iːv

gif

1. imperative of gifva.