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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian жест (žest), from French geste, from Latin gestus.
Noun
žest (genitive žesti, partitive žesti)
- gesture
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “žest”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009