gingifer

== Old English == === Alternative forms === gingiber, gingifere === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō, from Late Latin gingiber. === Noun === gingifer f ginger ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: gingivere, gingere, gingivre, gingyver, gynger, gyngere, gyngever, gyngiver, gyngyver, gyngyvyr (contaminated by Old French) English: ginger→ Greek: τζίντζερ (tzíntzer)→ Japanese: ジンジャー (jinjā)→ Maltese: ġinġer→ Manx: jinshar→ Welsh: sinsir→ Zulu: újínjaScots: ginger, ginge→ Irish: sinséar→ Scottish Gaelic: dinnsear→ Manx: jinshar→ Welsh: sinsir === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gingifer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.