gest

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛst/

Homophone: jest

Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

1. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564:

     The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,
     And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.

2. (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

3. (archaic) bearing; deportment
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 24:

     through his heroic grace and honorable gest

4. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was […].

Compare gist a resting place.

gest (plural gests)

1. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
2. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
   • 1829, John Hanmer, "Proteus", Fra Cipolla: And Other Poems

     The pictured lives of martyr, or of saint,
     Or gests of valorous knight

• Gets, gets, steg, tegs

Borrowed from Latin gestus, attested from the 14th century.[1]

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒest/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒest/

gest m (plural gests or gestos)

1. gesture

• gesticular

• “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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gest

1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

gest

1. singular present indicative of getast
2. second-person imperative of getast

• gist

From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu.

gest m or f

1. yeast

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• gist

• Dutch: gist
  • Afrikaans: gis

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.

• geste, gist, geast, gyst

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/, /ɡɛːst/, /ɡist/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

gest (plural gestes)

1. A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
2. A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
3. An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
4. A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
5. (figurative, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.

• gesten
• gestenen
• gestyng

• English: guest
• Scots: guest

• “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

gest

1. Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)

gest

1. Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

gest

1. Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)

From Latin gestus, via French geste.

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)

1. a gesture

• “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin gestus, via French geste.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)

1. a gesture

• “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːst/, [ˈɡɛːst]

gēst m

1. Alternative form of gāst

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

gest

1. accusative/dative singular of gestr

• *gast

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

gēst m

1. A soul, spirit, breath

• Middle Low German: gêst, geist
  • German Low German: Geest, Geist
  • Low German: geest
  • Plautdietsch: Jeist
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: gast
  • → Old Danish: gast (or from Frisian)
    • Danish: gast
  • → Swedish: gast

From Medieval Latin gestura, nominative singular of gesturus (“about to carry”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Syllabification: gest

gest m inan

1. gesture

• gest in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French geste.

gest n (plural gesturi)

1. gesture

From Latin gestus (“having been carried”).

• IPA^(key): /ɧɛst/

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gest c

1. a gesture; a motion of the hands

   gäster med gester

   guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)

2. a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal

• gestik
• gestikulation
• gestikulera
• gestikulering
• gestisk
• gestuell

• gets, segt, steg, tegs

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

gest

1. Soft mutation of cest.