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giet

1. inflection ofgieten:
   1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. imperative

• geit

• ġīt,ġȳt,ġēt

FromProto-Germanic*juta.

• IPA^(key): /ji͜yːt/

ġīet

1. still

   Riġneþ hitġīet ūte?

   Is itstill raining outside?

   On þunresdæġ hē ǣt þurh fēower strēawberġan, ac hineġīet hyngrede.

   On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he wasstill hungry.

   • late 9th century,King Alfred'stranslation ofBoethius'The Consolation of Philosophy

     Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nūġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.

     So I wonder why you can't understand that you're still very lucky, since you'restill alive and healthy.

   • c. 897,Alfred the Great,translation ofPope Gregory'sPastoral Care

     Hēr man mæġġīet ġesēon heora swaðu, ac wē him ne cunnon æfter spyrian.

     Here you canstill see their footprints, but we don't know how to follow them.

   • late 10th century,Ælfric,the Old English Hexateuch,Genesis 45:3

     And hē cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, "Iċ eom Iosep! Leofaþ ūre fæder nūġīet?"

     And he said to his brothers, "I'm Joseph! Is our fatherstill alive?"

   • Genesis 45:28

     And hē cwæþ "Iċ hæbbe ġenōg ġif Iosep mīn sunuġīet leofaþ. Iċ fare and ġesēo hine ǣr þām þe iċ swelte."

     And he said, "I have enough if my son Joseph isstill alive. I'll go and see him before I die."

2. (in negative phrases)yet
   • c. 992,Ælfric,"The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"

     Ne ġesāwon hīe þāġīet hine ǣnegu wundru wyrċan.

     They had notyet seen him do any miracles.

3. even (used to emphasize comparatives)

   Ǣr iċ wæs strang, ac nū iċ eomġīet strengra.

   I was strong before, but now I'meven stronger.

   • late 9th century,translation ofBede'sEcclesiastical History

     Līfes bōc and þrōwunge Sancte Anastase martyre, sēo wæs yfele of Crēcisċe on Lǣden ġehwierfedu andġīet wiers fram sumum unġetȳdum ġeryhtedu, iċ ġeryhte swā swā iċ meahte.

     A book on the life and passion of Saint Anastasius, which was poorly translated from Greek into Latin by some illiterate person and then revisedeven worse, I corrected as well as I could.

4. keep, continuing an action (+verb)
   • late 9th century,King Alfred'stranslation ofBoethius'The Consolation of Philosophy

     Iċ wēne þēah, ġif witġīet uncru word tōsamne slēaþ, þæt þǣr āspringe sum spearca upp sōþfæstnesse þāra þe wit ǣr ne ġesāwon.

     I think though that if wekeep striking our words together, some spark of truth will spring up that we haven't seen before.

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