An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 348
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 348
V. ~Gaist~.
_Houlate._
GET, GETT, GEAT, GEIT, _s._
1. A child.
_Wyntown._
2. A contemptuous designation for a child, S.
_Knox._
3. Progeny.
_Wyntown._
4. Applied to the young of brutes.
Goth. _get-a_, gignere.
_Douglas._
GEWE, _conj._ If.
V. ~Gif~.
_To_ GY, GYE, _v. a._ To guide.
_K. Quair._
O. Fr. _guier_, id.
~Gy~, _s._ A guide.
Hisp. _guia_.
_Wallace._
GY, _s._ A proper name; Guy, Earl of Warwick.
_Bannatyne Poems._
GIB, GIBBIE, (_g_ hard), _s._ A gelded cat, S.
Fr. _gibb-ier_, to hunt.
_Henrysone._
GIBBLE, (_g_ hard), _s._ A tool of any kind, S.; whence _giblet_, any small iron tool, Ang.
Teut. _gaffel_, furca.
_Morison._
GIBBLE-GABBLE, _s._ Noisy confused talk, S.
Isl. _gafla_, blaterare.
_Gl. Shirr._
GIDE, GYDE, _s._ Attire.
_Wallace._
A. S. _giwaede_, id.
_To_ GIE, _v. a._ To give, S.
V. ~Gif~.
GIELAINGER, _s._ A cheat.
V. ~Gileynour~.
GIEST, A contr. of _give us it_, S.
_Henrysone._
_To_ GIF, ~Gyf~, ~Giff~, _v. a._ To give; _gie_, S.
_Barbour._
GIF, GYVE, GEUE, GEWE, _conj._ If.