Re: Gesserit [was: RE: Dune Conlang]

Quoth Grandsire, C.A.:
> FFlores wrote:
> > Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> wrote:
> > > FFlores wrote:
> > >   gero (1) gerere gessi gestum. Lit. (1) [to carry , bear]; esp. [to
> > >   wear].
> >
> > *this* must be the root of Spanish _gerente_ 'manager'
> > (as in a company's department).
>
>         In French, we have "ge'rant" (cognate with Spanish _gerente_), the name
> of the activity is "ge'rance" and the verb is "ge'rer".
...which Larousse says does indeed come from Latin gerere (odd, I
thought most of the -er verbs came from -are verbs...).

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