Scottish past tense of 'gie,' meaning to give.
From Scottish English 'gie,' a dialectal form of 'give' (Old English 'gifan'). The '-ed' ending marks past tense in standard English, though Scots uses it for its own verb forms.
Scottish English preserves some of the oldest forms of English from medieval times—'gie' sounds strange to modern ears, but it's actually closer to how people spoke 800 years ago than standard modern English is.
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