troth

Meanings

Noun

• An oath, pledge, or promise.
• Truth; something true.

Verb

• To pledge to marry somebody.

Origin

• From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō ("contract; promise"), equivalent to true + -th. See further at truth.