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gager

English

Etymology

gage +? -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

  1. A measurer.

See also

  • gauger

Anagrams

  • Garge, Grega, agger, eggar, regag

French

Etymology

From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a.?e/

Verb

gager

  1. to guarantee
  2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gage- 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.

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

gager

  1. Alternative form of gauger

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gages

English

Noun

gages

  1. plural of gage

French

Verb

gages

  1. second-person singular present indicative of gager
  2. second-person singular present subjunctive of gager

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