594: bridegroom Jul 24, 2016

Marriage has led to the creation of many words. 'Bridegroom' comes from the Old English, 'brȳdguma', which itself can be broken into the parts 'brȳd' meaning ‘bride’ as it does today, and 'guma' which meant ‘man’, separate from the Old English 'mann' which meant 'person'. The change from ''brȳdguma' to 'bridegroom' occurred in Middle English due to association with the word, 'groom' which meant ‘boy', since 'guma' had become an obsolete word.

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