What did "give" mean, before it came to mean "to give"?

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In the 70s of the 20th century there appeared so-called contensive typology as the result of almost over three centuries of research of the Russian and Soviet linguists. The core of this theory consists in that almost all languages of the world can be classified into different types according to their mode of expression of subjectpredicate- object relation. On the one hand, languages of the Indo-European family belong to the accusative type based on their distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs. On the other hand, Indo-European languages are believed to have developed directly from the active language type. If the latter supposition be true, there arises a question, what was original meaning of the verb of giving, which has its origin in the Proto-Indo-European period. The aim of this article is to discuss this point.

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