Wage

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 · 1889 · p. 28

sb. a gage, pledge, pay for service, WA, Prompt.; wages , pl. , PP.—AF. wage , gage ; Low Lat. wadium , a pledge; Goth. wadi ; cp. Lat. uas ( uadi- ). Cf. Wed .