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dest
English
Noun
dest (plural dests)
- Abbreviation of destination.
Anagrams
- ETDs, STED, STed, TEDs, Teds, estd, estd., sted, teds
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *jástah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??óstos (“hand”), from *??es-. Cognate with Persian ???? (dast), Avestan ????????????????????? (zasta) and Sanskrit ???? (hasta).
Noun
dest m
- hand
Welsh
Alternative forms
- daethost (literary)
- delest (colloquial)
- desest (colloquial)
- dethest (colloquial)
- doist (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /d?sd/, [d?st]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /de?sd/, [de?st], /d?sd/, [d?st]
Verb
dest
- (colloquial) second-person singular preterite of dod
Mutation
Zazaki
Etymology
Compare Persian ???? (dast)
Noun
dest ?
- hand
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gest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st/
Homophone: jest
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
Noun
gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)
- (obsolete) A gesture or action.
- (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- (archaic) bearing; deportment
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare gist a resting place.
Noun
gest (plural gests)
- (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
- (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hanmer to this entry?)
- The pictured lives of martyr , or of saint , Or gests of valorous knight
Anagrams
- Gets, gets, steg, tegs
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin gestus, attested from the 14th century.
Noun
gest m (plural gests or gestos)
- gesture
Related terms
- gesticular
References
Further reading
- “gest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Icelandic
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
gest
- indefinite accusative singular of gestur
Etymology 2
Verb
gest
- singular present indicative of getast
- second-person imperative of getast
Middle Dutch
Alternative forms
- gist
Etymology
From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.
Noun
gest m or f
- yeast
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- gist
Descendants
- Dutch: gist
- Afrikaans: gis
Further reading
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II
Middle English
Etymology 1
From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ?iest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *g?óstis. Doublet of host.
Alternative forms
- geste, gist, geast, gyst
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/, /???st/, /?ist/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
gest (plural gestes)
- A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
- A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accomodation.
- An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
- A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
- (figuratively, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Derived terms
- gesten
- gestenen
- gestyng
Descendants
- English: guest
- Scots: guest
References
- “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Etymology 2
Noun
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
Etymology 3
Noun
gest
- Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)
Etymology 4
Verb
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)
Etymology 5
Verb
gest
- Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)
Etymology 6
Noun
gest
- Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin gestus, via French geste
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin gestus, via French geste
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon g?st or Old High German geist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?st/, [????st]
Noun
g?st m
- Alternative form of g?st
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.
Noun
g?st m
- A soul, spirit, breath
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: g?st, geist
- Low German: geest
Polish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin gestura, nominative singular of gesturus (“about to carry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Noun
gest m inan
- gesture
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From French geste.
Noun
gest n (plural gesturi)
- gesture
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin gestus (“having been carried”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Noun
gest c
- a gesture; a motion of the hands
- gäster med gester
- guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
- gäster med gester
- a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal
Declension
Related terms
- gestik
- gestikulation
- gestikulera
- gestikulering
- gestisk
- gestuell
Anagrams
- gets, segt, steg, tegs
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Verb
gest
- Soft mutation of cest.
Mutation
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