messenger

Origin: From , messingere, messangere, from , a variant of (), equivalent to . . Displaced native and messenger, ambassador. For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as and the rare , -enc, -inge, -inghe for. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).