gingifer
Old English
Alternative forms
- gingiber, gingifere
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō, from Late Latin gingiber.
Noun
gingifer f
Descendants
- Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French)
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gingifer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.