köken: From Middle High German eit, from Old High German eid, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz. Compare Dutch eed, English oath, Danish ed.
pledge, guarantee · deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this) · forfeit (something deposited as part of a game)
çekim: çoğul gages
köken: Inherited from Middle French gage, from Old French gage, guage, from Early Medieval Latin wadius (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Frankish *waddī.
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (glwb' /graw/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *grabʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (gar^əβ, “to seize”), Sanskrit ग्रभ् (grabh), English grab. Related to گرفتن (gereftan, “to take”).
köken: Inherited from Sanskrit पण (paṇa) with possible influence from Sanskrit प्रतिज्ञ (pratijña). Cognate to Gujarati પ્રણ (praṇ), પણ (paṇ, “vow, promise”).
promise, pledge · rising star, emerging talent, promising talent (person) · nomination whist, oh well (card game in which one aims to winning exactly the bid number of tricks)
köken: Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- or *peyḱ-; others refer it to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fasten, fix”); its meaning perhaps being "something pinned/fixed/retained (as pledge)".