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Gic latest derivative of which is , ‘accustomed,’ giwon,  gewon, whence, with a dental suffix (see  and ),   (yet without t,  and ); allied to  giwona,  gewone (gewan), ‘custom.’ For details see.   , and, ‘gout, mouth of a furnace,’ from the   giht,   (chiefly in the collective form gegihte, ), ‘gout, convulsions, spasms.’  *gihido may be inferred from  gihða, , ‘paralysis’; this dental suffix is frequent in old names of diseases. The root gih is not found elsewhere, and its meaning is obscure. cannot in any case be allied, since it presumes a root gai (from ga and a root ī̆; nor could we from this comparison infer the meaning of .  ',, from the   giksen (gëksen), ‘to sigh,’  gicchaȥȥen; from an onomatopoetic root gik, with a frequentative suffix sen ( aȥȥen, azzen,  atjan).  ', , ‘gable, summit,’ from the   gibel,  gibil, ; corresponding to  gevel,  gafl, ‘gable,’  gibla, , ‘spire.’ The  word significs ‘front side’ (e.g., of the ark of the covenant), as well as ‘nap’ (of velvet, &c.), so that ‘extreme end’ is probably the  meaning. It may be assumed, however, that the word was used in a figurative sense,  gëbel,  gëbal, , ‘skull, head,’  gibilla, , ‘skull’;  allied to  κεφαλή, ‘head’ (Aryan ghebhalâ, the type of this word and of ); hence  is  ‘head.’

', ',, ‘crucian’; like the  gibel, of obscure origin.   ,, ‘a species of tellina,’ allied to ginen (gienen), ‘to gape, open the mouth wide,’  ginên; the latter is derived from an  root gī̆ (Aryan ghī̆), ‘to bark, gape, open the mouth wide.’ See.   ,, ‘eagerness, inordinate desire,’ from gir (gër), , ‘longing, craving, greediness,’  girî, ; abstract of an ,  gër and giri,  gër, gir, ‘craving, longing,’ which is connected with the root ger (Aryan gher), discussed under. Another abstract form allied to this is , from  girde,  girida,  ( begeerte). For the older  gir, gër, only   is now used, from  girec,  girîg, ‘desirous.’   ,, from the  gieȥen,  gioȥan, ‘to pour, cast metal, form, pour out, spill, stream’; corresponding to  giutan, ‘to pour’ ( gjóta, ‘to throw young, blink with the eyes’),  geótan,  gieten; a strong verbal root common to , from pre- ghud, whence also the  root fud in fundo, ‘I pour.’ This root is probably connected with the  root ghu ( χυ-, in χέω, χῦμα,  root hu, ‘to sacrifice’). See also.    in, , , from the  and  gift, , ‘gift, present’; a verbal noun from  ( gifts,  gift). —, , meaning ‘poison,’ is the same word (for the evolution of meaning  poison, from  potio, potionem, ‘drink’); even in  and  gift,  (always  in this sense in ),  gift; in  lubja, ‘poison’ ( luppi,  lüppe, ‘poison’). The common Aryan term for ‘poison’ ( viša-, virus,  ίος) has not been preserved in. See.   ,, ‘yellow colour or substance,’ from the  gilwe,  giliwî (gëlawî), ; an abstract of  ( *gilwei, akin to *gilwa-). — To this , ‘to colour yellow,’ is allied. <section end="Gilbe" /> <section begin="Gilde" /> ,, ‘guild, corporation,’ only, from the   gild; corresponding to  gilde, ‘guild’ (from the middle of the 11th ),  gilde,  guild. The meaning of the word, which first appears in, is ‘sacrifice, sacrificial feast, festive gathering, club’; allied to  (in the sense of ‘to sacrifice,’ in  geldan, and in  gildan). <section end="Gilde" /> <section begin="Gimpel" /> , ‘bullfinch,’ from the  late  gümpel; in  figuratively ‘simpleton.’  gümpel is connected with gumpel, ‘leaping, jest,’ and further with gumpen, ‘to hop’; hence  gumpelmann ( gumpelliute), and gumpęlknëht, ‘tumbler, buffoon, fool.’ <section end="Gimpel" /> <section begin="Ginst" /> ', ',, ‘broom (plant),’ first occurs in , from gentista, whence also the Romance cognate,  genêt; the genuine  term is preserved in  broom,  bręm. See. <section end="Ginst" /> <section begin="Gipfel" /> ,, ‘summit, top, climax,’ from the late  gipfel, , the  word cannot be discovered;  is scarcely an intensive form of ;  gupf, gupfe, ‘point, summit,’ is<section end="Gipfel" />