morgage
Old French
Etymology
mort (“death”) + gage (“wage”).
Noun
morgage m (oblique plural morgages, nominative singular morgages, nominative plural morgage)
- mortgage (debt secured against a property)
Descendants
- English: mortgage (borrowed)
References
- morgage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (mort gage)