Mortgage is a combination of two Latin words.
“Gage” is debt.
“Mort” is until dead.
Loose translation is “in debt till you’re dead.”
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Thank you for that information, my ex may get a sad laugh out of it.
So in my real estate transactions class, I was told that the etymology is that gage is promise, and mort meaning death (same root as mortal); so it means “death promise.”
Same basic gist though.