guarantie

guarantie

Old French

Etymology

From guarantir.

Noun

guarantie f (oblique plural guaranties, nominative singular guarantie, nominative plural guaranties)

1. assurance; promise; guarantee
2. safety; security
3. contract

Descendants

• English: guarantee (borrowed) (possibly through Spanish), guaranty, warranty (through the Old Northern French/Anglo-Norman variant warrantie)
• French: garantie
• Norman: garanti

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garantie, supplement)