garage

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*wer-
2. Proto-Germanic*warōną
3. Frankish*warōn
4. Proto-Germanic*warōną
5. Old Norsevara
6. Old Frenchgarer
7. Middle Frenchgarrer
8. Frenchgarer
9. Frenchgarage
10. English todaygarage

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

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