Etymology

laager

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Today it means: A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers. Full definition →

Dutch lager ← German Lager ← Middle High German leger
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*legrą
  2. Old High German · derived fromlegar
  3. Middle High German · derived fromleger
  4. German · derived fromLager
  5. Dutch · borrowed fromlager“camp”
  6. English todaylaager

From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*legrą all →

lairleaguer

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.