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Geb gebürn, giburien, , ‘to occur, happen, fall to one's lot, devolve on by law, be due’; corresponding to  giburian,  gebyrian,  byrja, ‘to be suitable, becoming, fit’;  *gabaúrjan,  , may be inferred from gabaurjaba, , ‘willingly’ ( ‘in a fitting manner’?), and gabaurjôþus, , ‘pleasure.’ The whole class is probably connected with the root ber ‘to carry’;   , ‘to raise aloft,’ see ; hence  buri dik, ‘go (thou)’,  ‘raise thyself,’ giburita, ‘pervenit’; burien, büren, also ‘to come to pass.’ See ,.   ,, from the  geburt,  giburt, , ‘birth.’   gabaurpþs, , ‘birth,’ also ‘lineage, native town,’  giburd, ,  gebyrd, , ‘birth, rank, dignity,’  birth,  burþr, , ‘birth, embryo’; in form it points to Aryan and  bhṛtí-s, and both in form and meaning it corresponds to  brith, ‘birth’;  bhṛtí-s, , ‘bearing, nursing, maintenance’ With the simple  beran, ‘to give birth to,’ is connected an    barna-, ‘child’ ( ‘that which is born’), formed from the old no-partic. barn, bearn,, , and  barn, ‘child, son.’   ,, ‘fool, fop, buffoon,’  (and ), in which gëc, gëcke, , ‘silly fellow, fool, droll fellow,’ occurs even in the  period; not allied to  giege, ‘fool,’ mentioned under. gek,, gjœk, ‘fool,’  gikkr, ‘crafty, coarse person.’   ,, ‘memory, recollection, memorial,’ allied to , .—   ,, ‘thought, idea,’ from gedanc(k),  gedank, ,  githanko, , ‘thought,’  geþonc; allied to.  ,, ‘to thrive, prosper,’ from the  gedîhen,  gidîhan,  ;  gaþeilan,  geþeón (contracted from geþîhan), ‘to thrive’; the old  form points to the fact that the verbal stem was  nasalised; ñ before h is everywhere suppressed in , thus þîhan for þiñhan. The corresponding factitive *þhangjan remained in, where thengian means ‘to complete’; on the suppression of the nasal the e gradation passed into the î gradation in an. The simple form þeihan, ‘to thrive,’ is still known in. On account of its meaning, (root þenh, pre- tenk, tek, in  tenkù, -tèkti, ‘I have enough,’ as  well as in  tocad,  tynged, ‘fortune,’ from the  form tongeto-) cannot be be connected with the root τεκ in τέκνον (see ).— ,, ‘solid, pure, concise, pithy,’ from gedigen, , ‘adult, firm, hard, clear, pure,’  gidigan, , ‘aged, advanced in years, earnest, pure, chaste’;  a  of gidihan (g by a grammatical change is the necessary form of h in the );  preserves the older participial form of the e-gradation, geþungen, ‘complete,’ so too  thungan.  ,, ‘patience, forbearance,’ from the  gedult,  gedult, ; allied to.  ,, ‘bloated, puffed up,’ of a lost   which is retained in  dialects ( dinsen, ‘to draw ‘);   dinsen, ‘to draw, tear, extend,’  dinsan; also  *þinsan, atþinsan, ‘to draw.’ The  root þens, pre- tens, corresponds to the  root tans, ‘to draw,’  tęsti, ‘to draw, stretch.’ The root tens seems an extension of the root ten appearing in.  ,, ‘danger, risk, jeopardy,’ only, for  vâre,  fâra, , ‘ambush, deceit, hazard, danger’;  fœ̂r, , ‘ambush, unforeseen danger, fright,’  fear,  fâr, ‘ambush’;  *fêra, ‘ambush,’ follows from férja, , ‘waylayer.’  fâr, , has a somewhat different meaning, ‘misfortune, distemper.’ Allied to the root fē̆́r, Aryan pē̆́r, which in  periculum,  πεῖρα, ‘trial, cunning, deception,’ furnishes cognate meanings.   , m, ‘companion, partner, mate,’ from gevęrte,  gifęrto (*gafartjo), ‘escort,’  ‘fellow-traveller'; allied to. <section end="Gefährte" /> ,, ‘to suit, please,’ from gevallen,  gifallan,   ‘to happen, fall to one's lot, please,’ in  always with the complement ‘’ (well) or ‘’ (ill); probably an expression derived from the  warlike custom of dividing booty  by means of dice; , ‘I am well pleased with it,’  , ‘that was a lucky throw for me’ (a similar history is also connected with  , which furnishes evidence respecting the  drinking customs). Note too that in terms relating to card-playing have been similarly used,