wage

wage · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wedʰ-“to pledge, redeem a pledge”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*wadją“pledge”
3. Frankish · derived from*waddī
4. Medieval Latin · derived fromwadium
5. Old French · derived fromgauge
6. Old Northern French · derived fromwage
7. Anglo-Norman · derived fromwage
8. Middle English · derived fromwage
9. English todaywage

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.

wage · verb²

1. Frankish · derived from*waddī
2. Old French · derived fromguagier
3. Old Northern French · derived fromwagier
4. Middle English · inherited fromwagen“to pledge”
5. English todaywage

From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium (see the noun above). See Medieval Latin wadiō and wadium for more.

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