morgage

Old French

Etymology

mort (“death”) +‎ gage (“wage”).

Noun

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

mortgage (debt secured against a property)

Descendants

→ English: mortgage

References

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)

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