affy

Meanings

1. To have faith in (someone); to trust.
2. Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).
3. Chiefly of a man: to formally promise to marry (someone, chiefly a woman); to be engaged to; also, to marry (someone); to espouse.
4. Chiefly followed by to, unto, or with: often of a parent or guardian: to formally promise that (someone) be married to another person; to affiance, to betroth.
5. Followed by in, to, or unto: to bind or pledge (someone or something) to another person or thing.
6. Chiefly followed by in, on, and upon: to rely on, to trust.

1. An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.

Etymology

From Middle English affien (“to have faith, trust”), from Anglo-Norman afier, affier, affyer, Middle French afier, affier, affyer, and Old French afier (“to agree to marry; to believe, trust; to assure, promise; to confide in; to pledge, swear”), from Late Latin affidare (“to betroth; to pledge faith”), from Latin af- (a variant of ad- (intensifying prefix)) + Vulgar Latin *fīdāre (“to trust”) (from Latin fidēre, the present active infinitive of fīdō (“to put confidence in, trust; to rely upon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”)).