merge

See also: mérge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜːd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

merge (third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coalesce

   Antonyms: divide, split

   Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.

   The two companies merged.

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly:

     to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity

   • 1835 January, [Thomas De Quincey], “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By the English Opium-eater. […]”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume II, number XIII, Edinburgh: William Tait […], →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

     Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots—Englishmen—lovers of liberty.

2. To blend gradually into something else.

   The lanes of traffic merged.

Derived terms

• mail merge
• match-merge
• mergeability
• mergeable
• merge-purge
• merger
• urge to merge

 

Translations

(transitive) to combine into a whole

• Azerbaijani: birləşdirmək (az)
• Bulgarian: обединявам (bg) (obedinjavam)
• Catalan: fusionar (ca)
• Czech: sloučit
• Danish: forene, fusionere
• Dutch: samenvoegen (nl), fuseren (nl), fusioneren (nl) (Belgium)
• Finnish: yhdistää (fi), fuusioida (fi), sulauttaa, liittää yhteen
• French: fusionner (fr)
• German: zusammenlegen (de), zusammenfügen (de), zusammenführen (de), vereinen (de), fusionieren (de) (companies, departments)
• Greek: συγχωνεύω (el) (synchonévo)
• Hungarian: egyesít (hu), egybeolvaszt (hu), összefűz (hu)
• Italian: fondersi
• Japanese: 合わせる (ja) (awaseru), 合併する (ja) (gappei suru)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠮᠴᡳᠮᠪᡳ (kamcimbi)
• Maori: whakahanumi
• Polish: łączyć / połączyć
• Portuguese: unir (pt)
• Romanian: combina (ro)
• Russian: объедини́ть (ru) (obʺjedinítʹ), слить (ru) (slitʹ)
• Spanish: fusionar (es)
• Swedish: slå ihop (sv), fusionera, förena (sv)

(intransitive) to combine into a whole

• Arabic: دَمَجَ (damaja)
• Azerbaijani: birləşdirmək (az)
• Bulgarian: сливам се (slivam se), съединявам се (sǎedinjavam se), обединявам се (obedinjavam se)
• Catalan: fusionar (ca)
• Chinese: 合并 (zh) (hébìng) (hébìng)
• Danish: forene, fusionere
• Dutch: samenkomen (nl), samenvloeien (nl) (liquids), fusioneren (nl), samengaan (nl), samengroeien
• Esperanto: kunfandiĝi
• Finnish: liittyä yhteen, yhdistyä (fi), sulautua (fi), fuusioitua (fi)
• French: amalgamer (fr), fusionner (fr)
• German: verschmelzen (de), zusammenkommen (de), sich vereinen, sich zusammenschließen
• Greek: συγχωνεύομαι (el) (synchonévomai)
• Hungarian: egyesül (hu), egybeolvad (hu), összeolvad (hu), fuzionál (hu)
• Italian: unirsi (it), mergere
• Korean: 합하다 (ko) (haphada)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠮᠴᡳᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ (kamcibumbi)
• Maori: hanumi
• Polish: łączyć się / połączyć się
• Portuguese: convergir (pt), unir-se, juntar-se
• Romanian: se combina
• Russian: объединя́ться (ru) (obʺjedinjátʹsja), слива́ться (ru) (slivátʹsja)
• Spanish: fusionar (es)
• Swedish: sammansmälta, gå ihop (sv), fusionera

to blend gradually into something else

• Catalan: transformar (ca)
• Dutch: samenvloeien (nl) (liquids), overgaan (nl) in (nl)
• Finnish: sekoittua (fi), sulautua (fi), yhtyä (fi)
• German: zusammenkommen (de)
• Hungarian: beleolvad (hu)
• Maori: whakahanumi
• Romanian: se îmbina

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} fuseren (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} zusammenkommen (de), ^{(please verify)} (sich) zusammenschließen, ^{(please verify)} fusionieren (de)

Noun

merge (plural merges)

1. The joining together of multiple sources.

   There are often accidents at that traffic merge.

   The merge of the two documents failed.

Synonyms

• merger
• merging

Derived terms

• mail merge
• match-merge
• merge lane
• merge request
• mergesort
• zipper merge

 

Translations

joining of multiple sources

• Bulgarian: обединяване n (obedinjavane)
• Catalan: combinació (ca) f
• Czech: sloučit pf, slučovat impf
• Danish: sammenfletning c
• Dutch: samenvloeiing (nl) f, kruising (nl) f
• Romanian: combinare (ro) f
• Slovak: zlúčiť pf, zlučovať impf

Anagrams

• emerg

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛr.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrdʒe
• Hyphenation: mèr‧ge

Verb

merge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• germe

Latin

Verb

merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mergō

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.je/, [ˈmerˠ.je]

Adjective

merġe

1. Alternative form of myrġe

Declension

Declension of merġe — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	merġe	merġu, merġo	merġe
Accusative	merġne	merġe	merġe
Genitive	merġes	merġre	merġes
Dative	merġum	merġre	merġum
Instrumental	merġe	merġre	merġe
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	merġe	merġa, merġe	merġu, merġo
Accusative	merġe	merġa, merġe	merġu, merġo
Genitive	merġra	merġra	merġra
Dative	merġum	merġum	merġum
Instrumental	merġum	merġum	merġum

Declension of merġe — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	merġa	merġe	merġe
Accusative	merġan	merġan	merġe
Genitive	merġan	merġan	merġan
Dative	merġan	merġan	merġan
Instrumental	merġan	merġan	merġan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	merġan	merġan	merġan
Accusative	merġan	merġan	merġan
Genitive	merġra, merġena	merġra, merġena	merġra, merġena
Dative	merġum	merġum	merġum
Instrumental	merġum	merġum	merġum

Romanian

Alternative forms

• mere — Transylvania, Banat
• me — Maramureș, North Transylvania

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mergere, itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu; cf. also Albanian mërgoj (“to move away”) and Sardinian imbergere (“to push”). There may have been an intermediate sense of "to fall" in earlier Romanian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.d͡ʒe/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -erdʒe
• Hyphenation: mer‧ge

Verb

a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conjugation (intransitive)

1. to walk

   Synonym: umbla

2. (informal, by extension, of inanimate subjects) to move

   În punctul mort, o mașină merge numai din inerție.

   When in neutral, a car only moves through inertia.

   Planetele merg pe cer cu viteze diferite de a stelelor.

   Planets move in the sky at speeds different from that of the stars.

3. (by extension) to go (take oneself to somewhere)

   Synonym: se duce

   Merg la București mâine.

   I’m going to Bucharest tomorrow.

   Merg să mă întâlnesc cu soțul surorii mele.

   I’m going to meet my sister’s husband.

   Cu ce mergem, cu mașina sau cu trenul?

   What are we going by, car or train?

4. to be going, proceeding a certain way

   Cum merg proiectele?

   How are the projects going?

5. (impersonal, of beings) to be doing a certain way [with dative]

   Îmi merge bine.

   I’m doing fine.

   (literally, “To me it’s going well.”)

6. (informal) to work, to function, to work out

   Calculatorul nu mai merge.

   The computer doesn’t work anymore.

   • 1980, Marin Preda, chapter 9, in Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni [Earth’s most beloved son], volume 1, Bucharest: Cartea Românească, page 53:

     […] era clar, Nineta nu ezitase să curme singură o viață care „nu mai mergea“.

     Acum am o iluminare: nici a mea nu mai merge, adică n-ar mai merge chiar dacă printr-un miracol ași evada și reuși să fug din țară.

     […] it was clear, Nineta did not hesitate to put an end by herself to a life that “wasn’t working out anymore”.

     Now I have an epiphany: mine isn’t working out anymore either, I mean, it wouldn’t work out even if by miracle I were to escape and manage to get out of the country.

7. (informal) to pair well [with cu ‘with’]
   • 2008 March 14, Dan Diaconescu Direct‎^[1] (newscast), spoken by guest, via OTV:

     Unde ești tu, brânză Del,
     Cum mergeai c-un copănel,
     Roșii, ceapă și măsline,
     Îmi e-așa de dor de tine.

     Where are you, Del cheese,
     How well you paired with a chicken thigh,
     Tomatoes, onion and olives,
     I miss you so much.

8. (informal) to be acceptable, alright
   • 1980 December, Marius Robescu, Teatrul [Theatre]‎^[2], year 25, number 12, Bucharest, page 36:

     Bizar și comic și puțin tragic. Oricum, merge, e plauzibil.

     Bizarre and comical and a little tragic. Either way, it’s alright, it’s plausible.

9. (personal or impersonal) to be going on (to be about to complete a time interval, usually expressed in years) [with pe]

   Mergeam pe opt ani când am început școala.

   I was going on eight when I started school.

   Merge pe trei ani de când s-a închis fabrica.

   It’s going on three years since the factory closed.

Usage notes

The difference between umbla and merge is that umbla emphasises the act of walking itself (for its own sake or as opposed to other forms of locomotion), whereas merge is a less marked word which additionally can simply denote the action of going somewhere, which happens to be by walking.

This is not to say that merge cannot refer to mere exercise of one’s faculty of walking; for instance, “to learn to walk” is conventionally expressed as a învăța să meargă.

Conjugation

    conjugation of merge (third conjugation, past participle in -s)

infinitive			a merge
gerund			mergând
past participle			mers
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	merg	mergi	merge	mergem	mergeți	merg
	imperfect	mergeam	mergeai	mergea	mergeam	mergeați	mergeau
	simple perfect	mersei	merseși	merse	merserăm	merserăți	merseră
	pluperfect	mersesem	merseseși	mersese	merseserăm	merseserăți	merseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să merg	să mergi	să meargă	să mergem	să mergeți	să meargă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		mergi			mergeți
	negative		nu merge			nu mergeți

Derived terms

• îi merge gura
• îi merge la inimă
• îi merge mintea
• mergător
• merge după
• mergere
• mers
• mersură
• timpul trece, leafa merge
• treacă-meargă

Further reading

• merge in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1965–1968), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[3], volume 6, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 401–409