gain
French
noun
Definitions
- (usually) winnings, earnings, takings
- (finance) gain, yield
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gain (profit, advancement, gain, cultivation) inherited from Old French gaaing derived from Frankish *waidanjan (get food, graze, hunt, pasture, forage, hunt for food) derived from Proto-Germanic *waiþō (pasture, food, hunt, a hunt, grassland) derived from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weyh₁-
Gloss
chase, pursue, suppress, persecute, crave, hunt, reach towards, seek
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vaino Finnish
- Vienna Latin
- venor Latin
- vim Latin
- vindex Latin
- vindico Latin
- vindicātus Latin
- vindicō, vindicāre Latin
- vis Latin
- Augenweide German
- Trauerweide German
- Weide German
- Weidmann German
- οἶμος Ancient Greek
- ἴφιος Ancient Greek
- *-ós Proto-Indo-European
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₁y- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *weydʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *weye- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wiHrós, wih₁rós Proto-Indo-European
- *woyh₁-éh₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wéyh₁s Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European
- *waiþiz Proto-Germanic
- *waiþō Proto-Germanic
- waþ Old English
- veiðr Old Norse
- *stъrviti Proto-Slavic
- *vojinъ Proto-Slavic
- gaaing Old French
- vertu Old French
- weidōn Old High German
- geweide Middle High German
- weide Middle High German
- stërvis Albanian
- gain Middle French
- guadagner Romansh
- gudagnar Romansh
- gudagnear Romansh
- gudagner Romansh
- gudignar Romansh
- *waidanjan Frankish
- *waiþanjan Frankish