Etymograph

English

immerge

Immerge comes from Latin immergō ‘to immerse, plunge into’, from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti ‘to sink’, and ultimately from *mesg-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mesg-1‘to dip, sink’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mésgeti1‘to sink’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mezgō1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmergō1
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmergō2‘to immerse, plunge into’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1653immerge2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin immergo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English immerge
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting; or, The Epicure’s Measur: “[T]heir heads [i.e., of people who drink excessively] are…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mesg-Wiktionary, Latin immergo‘to dip, sink’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mésgetiWiktionary, Latin immergo‘to sink’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mezgōWiktionary, Latin immergoreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmergōWiktionary, Latin immergo
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmergōWiktionary, English immerge‘to immerse, plunge into’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1653immergeWiktionary, English immerge. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting; or, The Epicure’s Measur: “[T]heir heads [i.e., of people who drink excessively] are…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *mesg- ‘to dip, sink’

mascot, 5 more

through Proto-Italic *mezgō

emergent, 5 more

through Latin mergō

emergency, emerge, 6 more

Today it means

verb To plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “immerge”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin immergo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *mesg- / immerge

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