gave

Etymology

From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.

verb

1. simple past of give
   With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure. 31 Jul 2011, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
   Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something. c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919, Stanford University Press, 1995, page 297
   Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that. 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments[…], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678
   I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should've gave us notice. Formal. 10 August 2012, James Kelman, A Chancer, Birlinn, page 6