wage
Middle English
/ˈwaːdʒ(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A wage; earnings.
- Money reserved for the payment of salaries.
- An earned positive consequence.
- A promise, pact, or agreement.
Etymology
Borrowed from wage derived from Frankish *wadi derived from Proto-Germanic *wadją (pledge, guarantee).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wadją
Gloss
pledge, guarantee
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonwage English
- wage English
- wage-worthy English
- wageable English
- wagedom English
- wageless English
- wageling English
- wageman English
- wageworker English
- *wedʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wadją Proto-Germanic
- *wadjōną Proto-Germanic
- wedd Old English
- wagen Middle English
- veð Old Norse
- gauge Old French
- wetti Old High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 Gothic
- *wadi gmw-pro
- *waddi, *wadi Frankish
- *waddī, *wadi Frankish
- *wadi Frankish
- *wadja Frankish
- wage xno
- wage ONF.
- wagier ONF.