gesture (communicative, interpretable motion of the body) · sign (linguistic unit in sign languages)
çekim: çoğul Gebärden · tamlayan Gebärden
köken: From Middle High German gebærde, from Old High German gibārida, gibāridī (“demeanor, behavior, character”), from Proto-Germanic *gabērijaną, *gabarjaną (“to conduct oneself, behave”); see the related *gaberaną (“to bear, beget”) for more. Cognate with dialectal German Bärde, German Low German Gebarr, Dutch gebaarde, Middle English bærde, beard, beorde (“conduct, bearing”).
gesture (motion of the limbs or body) · gesture (act or remark)
çekim: çoğul gesty · tamlayan gestu
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Italic *gezō Latin gerō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin gestuslbor. Polish gest Learned borrowing from Latin gestus.
From Middle Dutch gebare, from Old Dutch gebare. Equivalent to a deverbal from gebaren. The sense “gesture” is relatively recent and was likely influenced by the sense “movement” and the related, now obsolete term gebaarde.