Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat. · The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk. · The throat of a flower. · Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour and gurges.
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- Root classification mention*gʷerh₃-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongorgeenm
- Derivation mentiongorgefro
- Cognate mentiongorgefr
- Derivation mentiongurgesla
- Derivation mention*gʷerh₃-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiongorxagl
- Cognate mentiongorgait
- Cognate mentiongorgaoc
- Cognate mentiongorjapt
- Cognate mentiongorjaes
- Doublet mentiongouren
- Doublet mentiongurgesen
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