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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To give.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Country, nonstandard, obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ghebh- Proto-Germanic *gebaną Proto-West Germanic *geban Old English ġiefan Middle English yiven English yive Inherited from Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ghebh-. Doublet of give, from Old Norse.
