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 (act of gesticulating) · gesture (act or token of appreciation or lack thereof) · movement, motion
çekim: çoğul gebaren
köken: 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.
A visible indication; a sign. · A meaningful gesture · A symbol, for example a letter of the alphabet or a more specialized sign.
çekim: çoğul teckens · tamlayan teckens
köken: From Old Norse teikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, cognate with English token and German Zeichen. The noun is derived from the verb *tīhaną (“to show, accuse”) (cf. Danish te (“to behave”), German zeihen (“to accuse”)).