FromMiddle Englishgaf,yaf,ȝaf, fromOld Englishġæf,ġeaf.
gave
- simplepast ofgive
1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Igaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
1815 December (indicated as1816), [Jane Austen],Emma: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] forJohn Murray,→OCLC:The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked,gave her severe pain.
2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden,The Guardian:With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursionsgave him enormous pleasure.
- (colloquial, nonstandard)pastparticiple ofgive
c.1916,Ring W. Lardner,The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton,The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919[1],Stanford University Press,1995,→ISBN, page297:Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody hasgave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.
1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, inHearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […] [2], U.S. Government Printing Office, page678:Mr.Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may havegave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.
2012 August 10, James Kelman,A Chancer[3], Birlinn,→ISBN, page 6:I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. Andyous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should'vegave us notice. Formal.
Borrowed fromMiddle Low Germangābe, fromOld Saxon*gāva, fromProto-West Germanic*gābā(“gift, giving”).
Cognate withGermanGabe. LateOld Norsegáfa andSwedishgåva are probably also from Low German. It has replaced a similar word with a different shape:Danishgæv(“feed”), fromOld Norsegjǫf(“gift”), fromProto-Germanic*gebō, cognate withGothic𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰(giba). Both words are ultimately derived from the verb*gebaną(“to give”).
gave c (singular definitegaven,plural indefinitegaver)
- gift,present
- gift (a talent or natural ability)
FromMiddle Dutchgave, fromOld Dutchgāva, fromProto-West Germanic*gābā, fromProto-Germanic*gēbǭ, ablaut variant of*gebō.
gave f (pluralgavenorgaves,diminutivegavetje norgaafje n)
- agift,donation,present
- a gift,talent
gave
- (dated or formal)singularpastsubjunctive ofgeven
gave
- inflection ofgaaf:
- masculine/femininesingularattributive
- definiteneutersingularattributive
- pluralattributive
See main entry
gave
- inflection ofgaver:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
Probably same as Etymology 1, in the sense "togorge, fill up".
gave m (pluralgaves)
- mountain torrent, watercourse, gorge.
gave f orm (definite singulargavaorgaven,indefinite pluralgaver,definite pluralgavene)
- apresent orgift(something given to someone, e.g. for Christmas or a birthday)
- agift(a talent or natural ability)
- “gave” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
Alternative scripts
- 𑀕𑀯𑁂(Brahmi script)
- गवे(Devanagari script)
- গৰে(Bengali script)
- ගවෙ(Sinhalese script)
- ဂဝေ orၷဝေ(Burmese script)
- คเว orคะเว(Thai script)
- ᨣᩅᩮ(Tai Tham script)
- ຄເວ orຄະເວ(Lao script)
- គវេ(Khmer script)
- 𑄉𑅇𑄬(Chakma script)
gave
- locativesingular ofgo(“cow, ox, bull”)
