PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
ROOT
EXTENSIONS
• Lat. spondeō -ēre ‘give a pledge’, ‘to contract (by word) to give or take in marriage’, ‘act as guarantor’, ‘guarantee’, ‘promise’ (OLD: 1809)
References
OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.