different between engagee vs engager

English

Etymology

French engagée

Noun

engagee (plural engagees)

1. (historical) A worker in the fur trade in North America; a voyageur.

Related terms

• engagé

English

Etymology

engage +? -er.

Noun

engager (plural engagers)

1. One who, or that which, engages.

2. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
   • 1834, George Godfrey Cunningham, Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen

     Several sufficient citizens were engagers.

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French engagier (“to pawn, make a pledge, plight”), from en- + gage (“pledge”), from Late Latin vadium (“pledge”), from Frankish *wadja (“pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *wadj?, *wadj? (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“guarantee, bail”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wedde (“property, pay”), Old High German wetti (“collateral, security agreement”), Gothic ???????????????? (wadi), ???????????????????? (wadja, “guarantee”), Old English wedd (“pledge, vow”). More at wed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a.?e/

Verb

engager

1. to pledge, commit
2. to hire, sign, snap up
3. to involve
4. to encourage
5. to pawn
6. (military) to enlist
7. to enter into (as, e.g., a conversation)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written engage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• engagement
• engagiste

Descendants

• ? Italian: ingaggiare
• ? Portuguese: engajar
• ? Romanian: angaja
• ? Turkish: angaje

Further reading

• “engager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• regagne, regagné

Old French

Verb

engager

1. Alternative form of engagier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /d?/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.