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Ger from the  and   gërn; to the latter correspond  gairns in faihugairns, ‘avaricious’ (  gairnjan, ‘to desire, long for, demand’),  gjarn, ‘eager,’  georn, ‘zealous,’  gaarne,  gern. Akin to and  gër (without the  suffix n), ‘desiring, demanding,’ as well as to,. The root ger (from Aryan gher, ‘to demand violently,’ was confused with a derivative form in r from a root gĭ (ghĭ), allied in meaning; see, . Whether the  root har-y, ‘to be fond of,’ or  χαίρω, or Oscan heriest, ‘he will be willing,’ is connected with the Aryan root gher is uncertain.  , , ‘barley,’ from the   gërste,  gërsta, ; akin to  gerst; a specifically  word, unknown to the other dialects;  and  grîst,  grist, are not connected with it, but with  grindan, ‘to grind’ ( to  frendere, ‘to gnash’?). In the remaining  dialects the terms for  are  baris,  bygg (and barr),  bęre,  barley.  gërsta, from pre- ghérzdâ-, corresponds only to the   hordeum (from *horsdeum,  form *ghṛzdéyo-);  κριθή, ‘barley,’ is scarcely a cognate. From an Aryan root ghrs, ‘to stiffen’ ( horrere for *horsere,  hṛš, ‘to bristle up’), some have inferred  to mean  ‘the prickly plant’ (on account of the prickly ears).   ,, from the  gęrte,  gartia, , ‘rod, twig, staff’; a derivative of  and  gart, ‘rod, staff, stick.’ To the latter correspond  gazds ( ,  to  huzds), ‘stick,’ and  gaddr ( goad and its   gâd are not allied; see ). Probably gazda- ( gęrta would be *gazdjô) is  allied to  hasta (from Aryan gazdhâ), ‘spear.’   ,, from the  geruch, , ‘scent, odour, fame’; akin to.   ,, ‘rumour, report, reputation,’ from gerüofte (geruofte), , ‘calling, cry’; cht instead of ft (see ) is due to  influence, as in  and.  ,, ‘to deign, condescend, be pleased,’ corrupted by connection with from the earlier  ,  geruochen,  geruochan, ‘to care for, take into consideration’ ( also ‘to  approve, grant’). Corresponding to ASax. rôkian, rêcan (and rĕccan, whence  to reck),  rœ́kja, ‘to take care of.’ The  root. rak, rôk, appears also in rahha, ‘account, speech;’ so too in. In the non- languages no root rā̆g in a cognate sense has yet been found.  ,, ‘scaffold,’ from gerüste, , ‘contrivance, preparation, erection, frame, scaffold,’  girusti; akin to , rusten, hrustjan.  ,, ‘joint, collective,’ from the  gesament, gesamnet,  gisamanôt;  of  samanôn. See.  ,, ‘business, affair, occupation,’ from geschefte, gescheffede, , ‘creature, work, figure, occupation, business, affair’; abstract of.  ,, ‘to happen, occur, befall,’ from the  geschëhen,  giscëhan; a specifically  word ( geschien,  geschieden), as well as the corresponding factitive. It is uncertain whether the word is connected with skêwjan, ‘to go,’ and the  root skeh (*kē̆hw, skē̆w), from skek, or  skokŭ, ‘leap,’ and  *scuchim, ‘I go or pass away.’ See  and .’ , ‘sensible, judicious, discreet,’ corrupted into, from geschîde, , ‘sensible, sly’; akin to schîden, a variant of scheiden. See.  ,, ‘occurrence, narration, tale, history,’ from geschiht,  gisciht, , ‘event, occurrence, cause of an event, dispensation’ ( also ‘affair, manner, stratum'; see ); abstract of. Similarly , ‘fate, destiny, dexterity,’ is based upon  geschicke,, ‘event, order, formation, figure,’ as the abstract of. —  , ‘apt, skilful, adroit,’ a,  geschicket, ‘arranged, prepared, ready, suitable,’ from  schicken, ‘to arrange, set in order.’  ,, ‘gear, trappings, implements, ware,’ from geschirre,  giscirri, , ‘dishes, vessel, instrument, utensils.’ The more general meaning, ‘instrument of every kind,’ is also seen, especially in  ( simply), ‘to harness a horse.’ The origin of the stem, which does not appear elsewhere in , is obscure. <section end="Geschirr" /> ,, ‘of good quality, soft, tender, shapely,’ from geslaht,