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Middle English gain, gein "profit, advantage" from Old Norse gagn "benefit, advantage, use" from Proto-Germanic *gagan- (“‘gain’”). Akin to Template:Isl gagn "gain, advantage, use", Template:Swe gagn "benefit, profit", Template:Dan gavn "gain", Gothic gageigan "to gain", Old Norse gegn "ready"; cf. Middle English gainen "to be of use, profit, avail", Template:Isl and Template:Swe gagna "to avail, help", Template:Dan gavne "to benefit".
The Middle English word was reinforced, and its frequency strengthened, due to similarity in form and meaning to an unrelated Middle French word gain "advancement, cultivation", with which it was confused. Middle French gain is a contraction of Old French gaaing, ga(a)igne, a noun derivative of gaaignier "to till, earn, win", also of Template:Gem[[Category:Template:Gem derivations|Gain]] origin, but from a different root, Template:Frk waidanjan "to pasture, graze, hunt for food" from Proto-Germanic *waiðī, waiðō (“‘pasture, field, hunting ground’”); cf. Old High German weidanōn "to hunt, forage for food" (Template:Deu Weide "pasture"), Old Norse veiðr "hunting", Old English wāþ "hunting, chase, pursuit".
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Gain ({{{1}}})
- The act of gaining.
- What one gains, as a return on investment or dividend.
- No pain, no gain.
- Template:Electronics The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
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- autogain
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to Gain (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (transitive): To acquire possession of what one did not have before.
- (transitive): To increase.
- (transitive): To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
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- agin,
- Agni
- gina, Gina
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Gain
- summit
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Old French gaaing, from the verb gaaingnier, whence the Modern French gagner
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Gain m. (plural Gains)
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