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From Bartleby.com: ETYMOLOGY: Middle English morgage, from Old French : mort, dead (from Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Latin mortuus, past participle of mor, to die; (see mer- in Appendix I) + gage, pledge (of Germanic origin). See the links below.

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