ger / gest
to carry, bear, do
Latin · gerere / gestus
Latin gerere 'to carry, bear, do, wage', past form gestus. Ger- and gest- words are about carrying or doing: a gesture is a carriage of the body, suggest carries an idea under, digest carries food apart, belligerent carries on war.
Memory trick
A GESTure is how you CARRY your hands: GER/GEST means carry or do.
Words from this root
- gesture (gest + ure) — movement of hands to show meaningहावभाव, इशारा
- gesticulate (gest + iculate) — to use lively hand gesturesहाथों से इशारे करना
- suggest (sug + gest) — to carry an idea forwardसुझाव देना
- suggestion (suggest + ion) — an idea put forwardसुझाव
- digest (di + gest) — to break down foodपचाना
- digestible (digest + ible) — able to be digestedसुपाच्य
- congestion (con + gest + ion) — crowding, a blocked flowभीड़, जाम
- exaggerate (ex + agger + ate) — to heap up, overstateबढ़ा-चढ़ाकर कहना
- belligerent (belli + ger + ent) — aggressive, waging warलड़ाकू, उग्र
- belligerently (belligerent + ly) — in an aggressive wayउग्र ढंग से
- gestation (gest + ation) — time of carrying youngगर्भकाल
- gerund (gerund) — verb form used as a nounक्रियार्थक संज्ञा