engager
French
verb
Definitions
- to pledge, commit
- to hire, sign, snap up
- to involve
- to encourage
- to pawn
- (military) to enlist
- to enter into (as, e.g., a conversation)
Etymology
Derived from Old French engagier (pledge, plight, engage, pawn, make a pledge) derived from Latin vadium derived from Frankish *wadja (pledge) derived from Proto-Germanic *wadjō derived from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (bail, guarantee).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wadh-
Gloss
bail, guarantee
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- engagement English
- vadium English
- vadium Latin
- engagieren German
- gaggio Italian
- ingaggiare Italian
- ingaggiatore Italian
- reingaggiare Italian
- ringaggiare Italian
- engageren Dutch, Flemish
- engagement French
- engagiste French
- rengager French
- ангажировать Russian
- *wadh- Proto-Indo-European
- engasjere Norwegian Bokmål
- *wadją Proto-Germanic
- *wadjō Proto-Germanic
- engasjere Norwegian Nynorsk
- wedd Old English
- wedlac Old English
- engagen Middle English
- angažmá Czech
- engagier Old French
- angažirati Serbo-Croatian
- angažman Serbo-Croatian
- ангажман Serbo-Croatian
- angaja Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- wetti Old High German
- wette Middle High German
- Wett Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌱𐍉𐌺𐍉𐍃 Gothic
- *wadi gmw-pro
- ангажман Macedonian
- *anwadjōn Frankish
- *wadja Frankish
- Wedding Pennsylvania German
- engagé Louisiana Creole French