different between gyve vs fyve

English

Alternative forms

• give

Etymology

From Middle English *give, *gyve (found only in plural gives, gyves (“shackles; fetters”)). Of uncertain origin. Compare Welsh gefyn (“fetter, shackle”), Irish geibbionn (“fetters”), geimheal (“fetter, chain, shackle”). The modern pronunciation with /d?/ is due to the spelling.

The verb is from Middle English given, gyven (“to shackle”), from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a?v/, /?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v
• Homophone: jive

Noun

gyve (plural gyves)

1. (literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] I would have thee gone:

     And yet no further than a wanton’s bird;

     Who lets it hop a little from her hand,

     Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,

     And with a silk thread plucks it back again,

     So loving-jealous of his liberty.

   • 1845, William Lloyd Garrison, “The Triumph of Freedom” in The Liberty Bell, Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, p. 192,^[2]

     With head and heart and hand I’ll strive

     To break the rod, and rend the gyve,—

     The spoiler of his prey deprive,—

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me, New York: The Overlook Press, 2004, Chapter 15, p. 126,^[3]

     Our gyves were removed and our possessions returned to us, except for my Banker’s Special.

Verb

gyve (third-person singular simple present gyves, present participle gyving, simple past and past participle gyved)

1. To shackle, fetter, chain.

Derived terms

• down-gyved

Translations

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

gyve (present tense gyv, past tense gauv, supine gove, past participle goven, present participle gyvande, imperative gyv)

1. Alternative form of gyva

English

Numeral

fyve

1. Obsolete spelling of five (5)

Anagrams

• FVEY