English
submerge
Submerge comes from Latin submergere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubmergere
- Englishearliest quotation 1950submerge
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubmergere
- Englishearliest quotation 1950submerge
Earliest quotation: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?: “Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with…”
A compound of sub ‘under’ + mergere ‘to plunge’
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under’
Proto-Indo-European *mesg- ‘to plunge, dip’
Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti ‘to sink’
Proto-Italic *mezgō
Latin mergō ‘to plunge’
Every English word from Latin submergere
Today it means
verb To sink out of sight.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin submergere / submerge