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.
face · heads (side of coin) · resemblance, appearance; look (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)
çekim: çoğul caras
zıt: coroa
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrh₂esn.
aile: acareação, acarear, cara a cara, cara de cu, cara de lata, cara de pau, cara de um, focinho de outro, cara ou coroa, cara-metade, carinha
cara ou coroa
Ele tem cara de idiota.
Ninguém ia desconfiar dele com aquela cara de abestado. Até que era bom ter cara de abestado, nunca que fossem pensar que tinha sido ele.
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.
köken: An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current…