English
agger
Agger comes from Latin agger ‘earthwork, rubble, rampart’, from gerō ‘to carry’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerōas gerere‘to carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagger‘earthwork, rubble, rampart’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500agger‘heap, pile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1845agger
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerōas gerere‘to carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagger‘earthwork, rubble, rampart’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500agger‘heap, pile’
- Englishearliest quotation 1845agger
Earliest quotation: 1845, George Biddell Airy, Tides and Waves: “The phænomenon of long continued high water or double…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
act, action, active, activity, actual, strategy, actor, agency, suggest, essay, agent, acre, agenda, activate, ambiguous, squat, ambiguity, agony, assay, antagonist, agile, digestion, agility, axiom, agitation, agrarian, radium, actuator, antagonism, agonist, digestible, cogent, actuation, agitate, antagonize, samaj, inexact, actuate, glucagon, stratagem, 140 more
through Latin gerō ‘to carry’
register, suggestion, gesture, congestion, digest, gestation, ingestion, belligerent, progesterone, ingest, gestion, gerund, 14 more
Today it means
noun A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / agger