Etymology tree
English merge
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English merger
From merge + -er.
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
The company has had some success with its EV offerings, such as the Nissan Leaf, an asset it brought to the table in merger discussions.
EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts. 2025 February 13, Juliana Liu and Junko Ogura, “Carmakers Nissan and Honda call off merger talks”, in CNN:
An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
If the presence of *θ in Sardinian words of Punic origin is indeed taken as evidence for an affricated realization of Semitic *z, this implies that the variety of Punic, that was the source of the Sardinian punicisms, did not exhibit the merger of Semitic *s, *z, *ṣ, *ś into /s/. 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 394:
sk fúzia (the act or process of merging) · fi sulautuminen (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Fusion (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi yhteensulautuminen (the act or process of merging) · ga cumasc (the legal union of two or more corporations) · nb sammenslåing (the act or process of merging) · fa ادغام (the act or process of merging) · fr fusion (the act or process of merging) · bg сливане (the act or process of merging) · ka შერწყმა (the act or process of merging) · hu fúzió (the act or process of merging) · pl fuzja (the act or process of merging) · cs fúze (the act or process of merging) · nl samensmelting (the act or process of merging) · ka გაერთიანება (the act or process of merging) · uk злива́ння (the act or process of merging) · ru слия́ние (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ru поглоще́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuminen (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · id penggabungan (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ar اِنْدِمَاج (the act or process of merging) · ru объедине́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ja 統合 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ru слия́ние (the legal union of two or more corporations) · hy միաձուլում (the legal union of two or more corporations) · nl opslorping (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · de Zusammenfügung (the act or process of merging) · cmn 合併 /合并 (the act or process of merging) · fi yritysfuusio (the legal union of two or more corporations) · be зліццё (the act or process of merging) · ru поглоще́ние (the act or process of merging) · uk злиття́ (the act or process of merging) · nl fusie (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Firmenzusammenschluss (the legal union of two or more corporations) · it unione (the act or process of merging) · ja 合併 (the act or process of merging) · sv sammanslagning (the act or process of merging) · cmn 合併 /合并 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · pt fusão (the act or process of merging) · uk злиття́ (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuma (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ka გაერთიანება (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fi sulautuminen (the act or process of merging) · hu egyesülés (the act or process of merging) · de Fusion (the act or process of merging) · fi yhdistyminen (the act or process of merging) · ru поглоще́ние (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · fi sulauttaminen (the act or process of merging) · ja 統合 (the act or process of merging) · de Zusammenschluss (the legal union of two or more corporations) · es mersión (the act or process of merging) · fi fuusio (the legal union of two or more corporations) · de Verschmelzung (the act or process of merging) · hu összeolvadás (the act or process of merging) · ka შეერთება (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ka შთანთქმა (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · it fusione (the act or process of merging) · ja 合併 (the legal union of two or more corporations) · fr fusion (the legal union of two or more corporations) · ka შერწყმა (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · pt fusão (the legal union of two or more corporations) · hi विलय (the act or process of merging) · hi विलय (the legal union of two or more corporations) · es mergimiento (the act or process of merging) · nl versmelting (the act or process of merging) · ru слия́ние (the act or process of merging) · nl amalgamatie (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ka შერწყმა (the legal union of two or more corporations) · be зьліцьцё (the act or process of merging) · bg обединяване (the act or process of merging) · mk спојување (the act or process of merging) · hi विलय (an absorption into one estate, contract etc.) · ko 합병 (the act or process of merging) · fr fusionnement (the act or process of merging) · nl fusie (the act or process of merging)