Etymology

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Today it means: To collect normally separate things. Full definition →

Middle English gaderen ← Old English gaderian ← Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰedʰ-“to unite, assemble, keep”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gadurōn“to bring together, unite, gather”
  3. Old English · inherited fromgaderian“to gather, assemble”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromgaderen
  5. English todaygather

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*gʰedʰ- all →

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