morgage

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman morgage, from mort (“death”) +‎ gage (“pledge”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔrˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

morgage (uncountable)

1. A mortgage (the conveyance of property as security for a loan or a loan involving this).
2. (figuratively, poetic) Something pledged or given in exchange for benefit.

• English: mortgage
  • → Maori: mōkete
  • → Mongolian: моргейж (morgejž)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: morgaidse
  • → Welsh: morgais

• “morgāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• mortgage

mort (“death”) +‎ gage (“pledge”).

morgage oblique singular, m (oblique plural morgages, nominative singular morgages, nominative plural morgage)

1. mortgage (conveyance of property as security for a loan)

• → Middle English: morgage
  • English: mortgage
    • → Maori: mōkete
    • → Mongolian: моргейж (morgejž)
    • → Scottish Gaelic: morgaidse
    • → Welsh: morgais
• → Medieval Latin: mortgāgium, morgāgium

• morgage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mort gage)