gif

gif (plural gifs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of GIF.
   • 2020 June 9, Yoko Wakatsuki, Eric Cheung and Jack Guy, “Japanese broadcaster takes down controversial Black Lives Matter anime”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Naomi Osaka, a Japanese professional tennis player, also responded to the NHK post with a popular gif of “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey expressing bewilderment.

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 hī ġeēacniacð heora wīta, ġif hī ǣr ende ne ċyrrað.

     ...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.