Gebärde

From Middle High German gebærde, from Old High German gibārida, gibāridī (“demeanor, behavior, character”), from Proto-Germanic *gabērijaną, *gabarjaną (“to conduct oneself, behave”). Cognate with dialectal German Bärde, German Low German Gebarr, Luxembourgish Gebäerde, Dutch gebaarde, Middle English bærde, beard, beorde (“conduct, bearing”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbɛːɐ̯də/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbeːɐ̯də/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ge‧bär‧de

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. sign (linguistic unit in sign languages)
2. any gesture of the body

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• gebärden, Gebärdenspiel, Gebärdensprache, Demutsgebärde, Drohgebärde

• “Gebärde” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gebärde” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Gebärde” in Duden online
• Gebärde on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Gebärde” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.