Ge-gifan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-gifan

to give. (1) to deliver, hand over:--Þá þám Godes mæn his ágen hors gegifen (ágifen, ) wæs cum servo Dei caballus suus redditur, Gr. D. 16, 1. (2) to give as a present:--Hig noldon him ágyfan nán þingc þæs þe se cyng heom gegyfen (geunnen, v. l.) hæfde, Chr. 1049; P. 168, 19. Hé hæfð gegyfen þǽ gegyldhealle, Cht. Th 605, 6. Eall þá woruldgód þá þe him gegyfene (-gyfne, gifene, v. ll.) wǽron cuncta quae sibi donabantur, Bd. 3, 5; Sch. 202, 19. (3) to give in marriage:--Hé Crísten wíf hæfde him gegyfen (him wæs forgifen, v. l.), Bd. 1, 25; Sch. 53, 7. ge-gifan

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