gif

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.

• IPA^(key): /χəf/

From Dutch gif, from earlier gift, from Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.

gif (plural giwwe or gifte, diminutive giffie)

1. poison; a poisonous substance

• giftig
• vergif

From Dutch gift, from Middle Dutch gift, earlier also gicht. From Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. Same etymology as above, but the two variants gradually acquired different meanings in modern Dutch.

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-West Germanic *gifti, 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, vergift

• Afrikaans: gif
• Negerhollands: gift

gif m (plural gifs, diminutive gifje n)

1. (computing) GIF (image format)

gif

1. romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐍆

• gyf, gyfe

From Proto-West Germanic *jabē, *jabu, from Proto-Germanic *jabai (“when, if”) with anomalous apocope. The expected form is attested once as ġyfe in the early 7th-century Law of Æthelberht, if not simply a scribal error.

• IPA^(key): /jif/

ġif

1. if
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"

     ...ac hi ge-eacniacð heora wita, gif hi ær ende ne cyrrað.

     ...but they add to their punishments, if they turn not before the end..

• ēalā ġif
• hwæt ġif

• Middle English: if, yif, yef
  • English: if, yif
  • Scots: gif, gyf, gin
  • Yola: yith, if

gif m (plural gifs)

1. GIF

• Rhymes: -iːv

gif

1. imperative of gifva

• fig.