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Re:Learn to read Middle English by 082349872349872 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#23468150)
Gift. (anglophones transferring to germanophone chemistry labs may think, at first, that the local industry is very generous)
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Re:Learn to read Middle English by kryptiskt on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:36PM (#23468799)
In Swedish "gift" means both "poison" and "married".
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Re:Learn to read Middle English by schoen on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#23468751)
Interestingly, its meaning in German once matched the meaning in English, but later shifted to a very specific kind of "giving".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gift#Etymology

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Re:Learn to read Middle English by stevula on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:46PM (#23468893)
Via the medicinal sense of "dose"
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