Word Origin Summary

Engager is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *wadjōProto-West Germanicderived from
2. *wadh-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
3. engagierFrenchderived from
4. vadiumLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ingaggiare

  Italian · borrowed from

• engatjar

  Catalan · borrowed from

• ангажирам

  Bulgarian · derived from

• engageren

  Dutch · borrowed from

• engasjere

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• angaja

  Romanian · borrowed from

• angažirati

  HBS · derived from

• engasjere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root