gayf

Old French

Adjective

gayf m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gayve)

  1. (of property, etc.) lost and unclaimed

Noun

gayf oblique singularm (oblique plural gays, nominative singular gays, nominative plural gayf)

  1. something that is lost and unclaimed

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gaif)