gave

See also: gavé and gåve

English

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Etymology

From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) enPR: gāv, IPA^(key): /ɡeɪv/
(Canada) IPA^(key):
- (Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): ,
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Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

gave

simple past of give
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for John 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 excursions gave him enormous pleasure.
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
- 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, Stanford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, page 297:
  Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.
- 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments ‎, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678:
  Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.
- 2012 August 10, James Kelman, A Chancer‎, Birlinn, →ISBN, page 6:
  I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous 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've gave us notice. Formal.

Anagrams

EVGA, Vega, vega

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German gābe, from Old Saxon *gāva, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā (“gift, giving”).

Cognate with German Gabe. Late Old Norse gáfa and Swedish gåva are probably also from Low German. It has replaced a similar word with a different shape: Danish gæv (“feed”), from Old Norse gjǫf (“gift”), from Proto-Germanic *gebō, cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰 (giba). Both words are ultimately derived from the verb *gebaną (“to give”).