gift – Old English noun declension

Noun: gift
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	ġift
Plural	ġifte; ġifta

Genitive

Singular	ġifte
Plural	ġifta

Dative

Singular	ġifte
Plural	ġiftum

Accusative

Singular	ġift; ġifte
Plural	ġifte; ġifta

Sample Sentences

c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
Þāðā hí noldon cuman to ðam ġiftum, ða sende hé eft, þus cweðende, "Secgað ðam gelaðodum, Efne, ic ġeġearcode mīne gōd, ic ofslóh mine fearras, and mine gemæstan fugelas, and ealle mine ðing ic ġearcode: cumað to þam ġiftum." (When they would not come to the marriage, he sent again, thus saying, "Say to those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my meats, I have slain my oxen and my fatted fowls, and have prepared all my things: come to the marriage.")

Nouns inflected like gift

gedryht, gierd, gebyrd, gift,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian jeft, Old Saxon *gift (in sundargift (“privilege”, literally “special gift”)), Dutch gift, Old High German gift (German Gift), Old Norse gipt (> English gift), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍆𐍄𐍃 (fragifts). See: Dutch Nouns 'gift', German Nouns 'Gift', Old Norse Nouns 'gipt', English Nouns 'gift', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍆𐍄𐍃'.