Gifa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Gifa

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: gyfa, giefa, geofa, an; Related words:

Definitions

1 gifa

m. A giver, bestower; dator, largitor :-- Me þincþ betere ðæt ic forléte ða gyfe and folgyge ðam gyfan it seems to me better to leave the gift and follow the giver, Shrn. 176, 19. Used in the following compounds :-- ár-gifa, æt-, beáh-, beág-, blǽð-, eád-, feorh-, gold-, hyht-, lác-, máððum-, rǽd-, sinc-, symbel-, wil-, will-. [Laym. rædȝive counsellor: O. Sax. méðom-gibo: O. H. Ger. gebo dator.] gifa

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛁᚠᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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