2007-06-13 01:49:04 · 5 answers · asked by ? 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It mean GIVE...like in the greeting "God gi' good day!"
2007-06-13 03:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by dvatwork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gi' could be a poetic use of give, gift, anything that starts with the letters g-i-...
Burns, an older poet than Shakespeare, used contractions that way:
"O wad some Power
the giftie gie us
To see oursels
as ithers see us!
You'll notice spelling was a bit more phonetic, and less rigid in that era, too. If you give us the line, play, and act, we can probably give you a more definitive answer on the Shakespeare question.
2007-06-13 09:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Dianne A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like "give". How about a sentence where it
was used?
BTW, to correct an earlier post,
Burns was NOT an older poet than Shakespeare.
He lived in the 18th century, Shakespeare in
the 15th and 16th.
He was Scotch and gie is a Scotch form of give.
2007-06-13 09:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any further clues? What is the sentence this word is from?
2007-06-13 08:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
give ?
2007-06-13 08:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by dreamgirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋