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Gef   ( ‘ace (of cards)’ then generally ‘good fortune’) and.  ,, ‘prison,’ from gevencnisse, , , ‘imprisonment’; allied to.   ,, ‘vessel, receptacle,’ from the  gevœȥe,  ( givâȥȥi, , ‘transport’). *gafêti,, is wanting; it would probably be connected with fêtjan, ‘to adorn’ ( fœted, , ‘adorned’), and also more remotely with.   ,, ‘feathers, plumage, fowls,’ from the  gevidere,  gefidari, ; collective of.   ,, ‘fields, plain,’ from the  gevilde,  gefildi, ; collective of.  , of a lost , ‘assiduous, busy,’ See. ,, ‘against, opposite to, in presence of, in comparison with,’ from gęgen,  gęgin, gagan, ‘against’ (in  and  almost always with a ); allied to the   gęgene,  gęgini, gagani, ‘towards’; corresponding to  geán, ongeán, ‘against,’  again;  gęgin and  gagn, ‘against,’ appear only in compounds; in  a corresponding word is wanting. Of obscure origin. —  , ‘region, neighbourhood,’ from the  (post-classical) gęgenôte, gęgende,, which, with the variant gęgene, , are imitations of  contrée ( contrada), ‘country,’ allied to  contra. —   , ‘presence, present time,’ from gęgenwart,  gęginmwarti,, abstract of  gaganwart, ‘present,’ whence  gęgenwertec, MulHG. , ‘present.’ See the suffix.  , in, ‘to fare, be (in health), behave,’ from  sich gehaben,  sih gihabên, ‘to hold, be (in health)’; allied to.  ,, ‘hedge, enclosure, precinct,’ from gehege, , ‘enclosure’; allied to ,.  ,, ‘private, secret, hidden, mysterious,’ from the late  geheim, which, with , means  ‘belonging to the house.’ ,, ‘to go, walk, go on well, succeed,’ from the  and  gên, gân (some of the inflected forms supplied by the stem gang; see );   gân (stem gâ-, from gai),  to go,  and  ga, ‘to go.’ The  assumed root ghai-, meaning ‘to go,’ cannot be positively authenticated beyond the  group (yet   gâju, ‘I went’?). The remarkable facts that this gai, ‘to go,’ has no  noun derivatives in, that it has supplanted the root i, which is widely diffused in Aryan, but almost obsolete in  (retained, however, in the  aorist iddja,  eóde), and that like the latter it is conjugated like verbs in mi — all these lead to the supposition that the assumed  *guim, *gais, *gaiþ are contracted from the verbal particle ga (see ) and the old inherited îmi, îsi, îti (  εἶμι,  êmi, êši, êti), ‘to go.’ From this explanation it follows that  is fundamentally identical with  îre,  ἰέναι,  root i,  eíti. iti, ‘to go’ (see ). For a similar blending of a verbal particle and an old ,. ,, ‘secure against anything uncanny,’ from gehiure, ‘gentle, graceful, free from anything uncanny’;   and  unhiuri, ‘dreadful, terrible,’  hŷre (heóre), ‘friendly, mild,’  hýrr, ‘mild.’ Indubitable cognates in the non- languages are wanting; perhaps  çakrá, ‘strong’ (of deities) is allied, so that  -hiuri would represent hegwro- (Aryan keqró-).  ,, ‘lap,’ from  gêre, yêro, , ‘wedge-shaped piece of stuff or land, lap’; corresponding to  gâra, ‘piece of stuff,’  gore,  geire, in the same sense; a  of. For the evolution of meaning,. — From the word the  cognates,  giron and  gherone, ‘lap, train (of a dress),’ are derived. <section end="Gehren" /> <section begin="Geier" /> ,, ‘vulture, carrion kite,’ from the  and  gîr, , akin to  gier. On account of the early appearance of the word we cannot assume that it was borrowed from the  cognates,  girfalco,  gerfaut (whence  gir-valke is derived), or from   gyrare, ‘to wheel round.’ The connection between  gîr with  gī̆ri,  gîre ( still occurs in  ), ‘greedy, covetous,’ and the  root gī̆r, ‘to covet,’ presents no difficulty. is ‘the greedy bird.’ See,. <section end="Geier" /> <section begin="Geifer" /> ,, ‘slaver, drivel, wrath,’ from the late  geifer,  (15th ), whence also geifern,. Origin obscure. <section end="Geifer" />