köken: Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
manquer à sa promesse
Une promesse partiellement tenue est une promesse entièrement trahie.
Je fais la promesse de ne plus croire en ce qui me ment / Ne plus me nier dans ma souffrance
köken: From Arabic وَعْدَة (waʕda, “promise”). Doublet of уәде (uäde). Cognate with Tatar вәгъдә (wäğdä), Bashkir вәғәҙә (vəğəźə), Kyrgyz убада (ubada), Uzbek vaʼda, Turkmen wada (“promise”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai سوز (söz), from Proto-Common Turkic *söz, from Proto-Turkic *söŕ. Cognate of Uyghur سۆز (söz), Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, and Karaim söz, Kazakh and Kyrgyz сөз (söz), Karakalpak sóz, Tatar сүз (süz), etc.
köken: Inherited from Sanskrit पण (paṇa) with possible influence from Sanskrit प्रतिज्ञ (pratijña). Cognate to Gujarati પ્રણ (praṇ), પણ (paṇ, “vow, promise”).