gingifer

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Old English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

gingiber, gingifere

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō.

Noun[edit]

gingifer f

ginger

Descendants[edit]

Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French)
- English: ginger
- Scots: ginger, ginge
- → Irish: sinséar
- → Scottish Gaelic: dinnsear
- → Manx: jinshar
- → Welsh: sinsir

References[edit]

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gingifer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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