gie

gie

1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of ye (“you”)

• IPA^(key): /ji͜y/

ġie

1. Alternative form of ġēa

From the first letter of gówno.

• IPA^(key): /ɡjɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: gie

gie n (indeclinable)

1. (minced oath) shit, turd, excrement
2. (minced oath) piece of shit (something of low quality or frustratingly inadequate)

• gie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• gea (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ea (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• schi (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin sic.

gie

1. (Sursilvan) yes (used to indicate agreement with a positive statement)

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
• (Sursilvan) bein
• (Sutsilvan) bagn
• (Surmiran) gea bagn
• (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, hei, bainschi hei
• (Vallader) hai, bainschi hai

• geve, gewe, gif, gyf, gefe

From Middle English given, geven, gifen, from Old Norse gefa.

gie (third-person singular simple present gies, present participle giein, simple past gied, past participle gied or gien)

1. To give.

   Gie us (or gie's) a brek. ― Give us a break.

   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, “Wandering Willie's Tale”, in Redgauntlet:

     “Here, Dougal,” said the laird, “gie Steenie a tass of brandy, till I count the siller and write the receipt.”

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   • 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, John 3:16:

     For God sae luved the warld at he gíed his ae an ane Son, at ilkane at belíeves in him mayna perish but hae eternal life.

     Because God loved the world so much, he gave his own begotten son, so anyone that believes in him won't perish, but has eternal life.

• gie it laldy

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gie

1. (interrogative) who
2. (relative) who, that, which

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Middle Dutch gī, ghi, from Old Dutch gī, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, Northwest Germanic variant of *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

gie

1. you (second-person singular subjective personal pronoun)