merge

• vt. 融合する；融合させる；飲み込む
• vi. 融合する；融合する
• n. （イタリア語で）人の名前；（イタリア語で）合併する

ラテン語のmergere（浸す、沈める）から。語源はPIE *mezg（浸す、沈める）で、語源的にはimmerse（浸る、出現する）と同じ。合併、統合などを意味する派生語。

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.

彼はカメレオンのように、神を知らずに背景の真ん中に隠れることができる。

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

は重要な灌漑システムの北にあり、これらの川が交差している。

3.Many companies merge and few demerge.

多くの企業が合併しているが、分割されているものは少ない。

4.Night and day begin to merge .

夜明けに来ます。

5.The banks are set to merge next year.

これらの銀行は来年合併する予定です。