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gestation: [16] Etymologically, gestation is the period during which unborn young is ‘carried’ inside the womb. Indeed, to begin with the word meant simply ‘carrying’ in English (‘Gestacion, that is to be carried of another thing, without any travail of the body itself’, William Bullein, Bulwark of Defence Against All Sickness 1562). It comes from Latin gestātiō, a derivative of the verb gerere ‘carry, conduct oneself, act’.

This has given a wide variety of words to English, including congest, digest, gerund, gesture, jester, register, and suggest (gerund [16] comes from Latin gerundum, a variant of gerendum ‘carrying on’, the gerund of gerere).

=> congest, digest, gesture, jester, register, suggest[gestation etymology, gestation origin, 英语词源]