Where does “merge” come from?

merge (Italian) comes from Italian mergere, from Latin mergō, from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti, from Proto-Indo-European mesg- — to dip, sink.

merge (Italian): third-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “merge”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmergereto immerse
2Latinmergōto dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown
3Proto-Indo-European*mésgetito sink
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmesg-to dip, sink
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mesg- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti →Every word from Latin mergō →