guise 
(gīz)
(gīz)n.
1. Outward appearance or aspect; semblance.
2. False appearance; pretense: spoke to me under the guise of friendship.
3. Mode of dress; garb: huddled on the street in the guise of beggars.
4. Obsolete Custom; habit.
[Middle English, manner, fashion, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see weid- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- Indo-European root: smei-
- Indo-European root: (s)mer-
- Indo-European root: (s)mer-
- Indo-European root: sneigwh-
- Indo-European root: (s)neəu-
- Indo-European root: snā-
- Indo-European root: (s)nāu-
- Indo-European root: (s)nē-
- Indo-European root: so-
- Indo-European root: sol-
- Indo-European root: spek-
- Indo-European root: (s)pen-
- Indo-European root: spend-
- Indo-European root: sper-
- Indo-European root: sperə-
- Indo-European root: spē-
- Indo-European root: sreu-
- Indo-European root: (s)teg-
- Indo-European root: stegh-
- Indo-European root: steig-
- Indo-European root: steigh-
- Indo-European root: stel-
- Indo-European root: (s)tenə-
- Indo-European root: ster-
- Indo-European root: ster-