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Danish
Alternative forms
- gi' (representing the spoken language)
Pronunciation
Verb
giv
- imperative of give
Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑁄𑀳𑀽𑀫 (gohūma), from Sanskrit गोधूम (godhūma). Cognate with Hindi गेहूँ (gehū̃).
Noun
giv m (nominative plural giva)
- wheat
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gōdhūˊma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 230
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “giv”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 98
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o giv, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 150
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
giv c
- deal; the act of distributing playing cards
- dealer; one who distributes playing cards
- deal, hand; the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- deal, round; the moment from dealing the cards until the players are finished with them
Declension
Verb
giv
- imperative of giva
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