verge
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- rod; stick; staff
Etymology
Inherited from Old French verge inherited from Latin virga (twig, stick, rod, shoot, slender green branch, rod stick, switch, staff, branch).
Origin
Latin
virga
Gloss
twig, stick, rod, shoot, slender green branch, rod stick, switch, staff, branch
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
棒
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- verge English
- verge staff English
- vergeboard English
- verger English
- vergeth English
- virga English
- virga Latin
- virgator Latin
- virgetum Latin
- virginem Latin
- virgula Latin
- verga Italian
- verge French
- vergette French
- vergue French
- vierge French
- verga Spanish, Castilian
- verja Spanish, Castilian
- *wisgeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wisgā Proto-Indo-European
- verga Portuguese
- verge Old French
- vergo Esperanto
- verga Galician
- vargă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vèrdgette Norman
- vèrgue Norman
- veargã Aromanian
- *wizgā Proto-Italic
- virga Istriot
- vyèj Antillean Creole