deal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An agreement, especially one to buy or sell something.

   They made a deal to sell the house.

2. 2
   noun

   An arrangement that gives someone a good price or fair treatment.

   We got a great deal on our new car.

3. 3
   verb

   To handle or take action about something (usually with 'with').

   The manager knows how to deal with difficult customers.

4. 4
   verb

   To give out playing cards to players in a game.

   It's your turn to deal the cards.

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Simplified etymology

Deal in its Old English sense is closely related to dole, whose original meaning was “division” or “share.” The separate use of deal for a kind of wood entered in Middle English from Middle Low German or Dutch dele “plank.”

From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).

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