This is one of Hoocąk’s four (periphrastic) causatives. The causative verb gigi expresses a permissive meaning (A lets U do X) and is considered to be more polite than hii. It’s a valency increasing operation that can be used with both stative and active (intransitive and transitive) verbs.
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