mortgage
English
/ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/, /ˈmɔɹ.ɡɪdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- (legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
- (obsolete) State of being pledged.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mer-
Gloss
die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambrosia English
- antemortem English
- daymare English
- dismortgage English
- immortally English
- morbidity English
- morbidly English
- morbidness English
- mortality English
- mortgageable English
- mortgagee English
- mortgageless English
- mortgager English
- mortgaging English
- mortgagor English
- mortify English
- mortmain English
- mortuary English
- multimortgage English
- murderous English
- murrain English
- nonmortgage English
- nonmortgageable English
- perimortem English
- postmortem English
- premortem English
- remortgage English
- remortgager English
- unmortgage English
- unmortgageable English
- immortālis Latin
- immortālitās Latin
- merus Latin
- morbidus Latin
- morbus Latin
- moribundus Latin
- morior Latin
- morior, morī Latin
- mortālis Latin
- morī Latin
- post Latin
- rememorari Latin
- mort French
- μάρμαρος Ancient Greek
- μαρμαίρω Ancient Greek
- μαρτιχόρας Ancient Greek
- *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer-, *mr̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *mor- Proto-Indo-European
- *mrtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥twós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- *maimrōną Proto-Germanic
- *mairōną Proto-Germanic
- *mari Proto-Germanic
- *marǭ Proto-Germanic
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- *mīmrōną Proto-Germanic
- *nihtmare Old English
- मरते Sanskrit
- मारयति Sanskrit
- मृ Sanskrit
- मृत Sanskrit
- mortally Middle English
- morðari Old Norse
- *merti Proto-Slavic
- *morъ Proto-Slavic
- *sъmьrtь Proto-Slavic
- *umerti Proto-Slavic
- *umerti, *merti Proto-Slavic
- *umirati Proto-Slavic
- mor Czech
- مرده Persian
- մարի Old Armenian
- 按揭 Chinese
- мрша Macedonian
- *mr̥tyúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *márti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *mártyas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- umrieť Slovak
- *morjōr Proto-Italic
- YMYTWNtn' Middle Persian
- 𑀫𑀸𑀭𑁂𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *merusa Proto-Albanian
- mirin Kurdish
- murrain
- mortify
- daymare
- mortuary
- morbidly
- ambrosia
- mortmain
- murderous
- mortgagor
- mortgager
- mortgagee
- mortality
- morbidity
- premortem
- unmortgage
- postmortem
- mortgaging
- immortally
- morbidness
- remortgage
- antemortem
- perimortem
- nonmortgage
- dismortgage
- remortgager
- mortgageable
- mortgageless
- multimortgage
- unmortgageable
- nonmortgageable