Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage. · To bet or wager (something). · To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). · Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
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