merge

来自拉丁语mergere,浸入，浸没，来自PIE*mezg,浸入，浸没，词源同immerse,emerge.字母z被r音化。引申词义合并，整合等。

merge

merge: [17] Merge comes from Latin mergere, which meant ‘dive, plunge’ (it was also the source of English emerge [16], which etymologically means ‘rise out of a liquid’, immerse [17], and submerge [17]). Merge was originally used for ‘immerse’ in English too, and the modern meaning ‘combine into one’ did not emerge fully until as recently as the 20th century. It arose from the notion of one thing ‘sinking’ into another and losing its identity; in the 1920s this was applied to two business companies amalgamating, and the general sense ‘combine’ followed from it.
=> emerge, immerse, submerge

merge (v.)

1630s, "to plunge or sink in," from Latin mergere "to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge," probably rhotacized from *mezgo, from PIE *mezg- "to dip, plunge" (cognates: Sanskrit majjati "dives under," Lithuanian mazgoju "to wash"). Legal sense of "absorb an estate, contract, etc. into another" is from 1726. Related: Merged; merging. As a noun, from 1805.

1. Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background.

他就像一条变色龙，可以神不知鬼不觉地隐藏在背景中间。

2. The rivers merge just north of a vital irrigation system.

就在一个重要的灌溉系统的北边，这些河流交汇在一起。

3. Many companies merge and few demerge.

有很多公司合并，而分立的却很少。

4. Night and day begin to merge.

夜尽昼来。

5. The banks are set to merge next year.

这几家银行准备明年合并。