betroth to

betroth someone to someone

to promise someone in marriage to someone else. The king betrothed his daughter to a prince from the neighboring kingdom. She betrothed herself to one of the peasant boys from the village.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Fedelma	-	Irish
Jacoba	yah-KO-bah	Dutch
Marisa	mah-REE-zah (Italian), mah-REE-sah (Spanish), mə-RIS-ə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
HjÖRdis	YUUR-dis	Swedish
Colette	ko-LET	French
Hekate	-	Greek Mythology