Where does “promis” come from?
promis (Middle English) comes from Old French promesse, from Medieval Latin promissa, from Latin prōmissum, from Latin promissus, from Latin prōmittō, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr — to fit, to fix, to put together.
Ancestry of “promis”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | promesse | promise |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | promissa | — |
| 3 | Latin | prōmissum | promise |
| 4 | Latin | promissus | promised |
| 5 | Latin | prōmittō | to send forth |
| 6 | Latin | prō | for |
| 7 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 8 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |