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Gift

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means something given voluntarily without payment, or a natural talent
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Stage 1 of 2
gift
Old Norse · medieval
"a giving, a present"
a giving, or something given, with a positive sense unlike its Old English cousin
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Stage 2 of 2
gift
English · 1200s
"something given willingly to another"
settled as the word for something given willingly
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