Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate. · To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. · To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). · To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
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- Root classification mention*gʰed-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongessenenm
- Inherited-form mentiongesseenm
- Derivation mentiongetsegmq-oda
- Derivation mention*getsanon
- Derivation mention*gitisōnągem-pro · to guess
- Derivation mention*getanągem-pro · to get
- Derivation mention*gʰed-ine-pro · to take, seize
- Cognate mentiongisneda · to guess
- Cognate mentiongissano
- Cognate mentiongissasv · to guess
- Cognate mentiongisjestq · to guess
- Cognate mentiongissennl · to guess
- Cognate mentiongissennds · to guess
- Cognate mentiongisnl · a guess
- Cognate mentiongiskais
- Cognate mention*gitiskōnągem-pro
- Cognate mentionгада́тьru · to conjecture, guess, divine
- Cognate mentiongjëzësq · riddle
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