The story
- Latin · derived fromēmergō“to rise up or out”
- Middle French · borrowed fromemerger
- English todayemerge
First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.