One way to picture wage: the money that comes back to you for the hours you put in — counted by the hour, the day or the week, and usually handed over regularly. The verb (wage war) looks like a different word altogether, but both grew from an older idea of pledging something.
From the word’s history
Both go back to the same root. The noun (c. 1300) is from Anglo-French and Old North French wage 'pledge, pay, reward', from Frankish *wadja-; the verb (also c. 1300) is from Old North French wagier 'to pledge', and its sense 'carry on, engage in (war)' is attested from the mid-15c., probably from an earlier sense 'offer as a gage of battle'.
兩邊來自同一個字根。名詞（約 1300 年）來自盎格魯法語與古北法語的 wage「抵押、報酬」，再往上是法蘭克語 *wadja-；動詞（同樣約 1300 年）來自古北法語 wagier「以…作保」，而「進行、發動（戰爭）」這層意思要到 15 世紀中葉才有紀錄，很可能是從更早的「下戰帖、以此為賭注」演變來的。所以「工資」和「發動戰爭」不是巧合同形，而是同一個「押上承諾」的概念分成兩路走。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/wage)
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wagenoun詞源 1/weɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
- Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.
wageverb詞源 2/weɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
obsoleteTo wager, bet.
- My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thine enemies
- 2
obsoleteTo expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King.
- to wake and wage a danger profitless.
- 3
obsoleteTo employ for wages; to hire.
- Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
- [B]etter it as for him to trie the vttermoſt pointe of fortunes happe, than with diſhonour ſo to yeelde at the firſt blow of hyr frowarde hande, conſidering the abundance of treaſure whiche he had in ſtore, wherewith hee might wage ſouldiers and menne of warre out of Germanie and other places, in number ſufficient to matche with his enimies.
- 4
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit
- The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
- 5
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
- 6
obsoletelawTo give security for the performance of.
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