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WORD DOSSIERS
nounexact headword
bridegroom
A man about to be or recently married; remodeled from bridegome after the older man-word gome became opaque.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
bride
A woman about to be or recently married; inherited from Old English brȳd and directly preserved inside bridegroom.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗024
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
bridegroom
a man about to be or recently married
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- 1525–today
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Middle English / Indo-European
bridegome
bridegroom
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- Middle English
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- gloss
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Middle English / Indo-European
brydegrome
bridegroom
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- Middle English Scots
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Old English / Indo-European
brȳdguma
bridegroom; bride-man
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- Old English
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedestablishedexact word
Was the second element of bridegroom always groom?
No. The inherited form had guma or gome, man; groom replaced the opaque element by folk etymology.
resolvedestablishedexact word
Are bridegroom and human directly descended from one another?
No. Germanic *gumōn- and Latin homō reflect different earthling formations that meet only at *dhghem-.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 126GRADE Aexact ranked word
The groom in bridegroom is a replacement.
Old English brȳdguma contained guma, man; familiar groom replaced opaque gome by folk etymology.
RANK 131GRADE Acontrarian claim
Only half of bridegroom reaches the earthling root.
Bride continues Old English brȳd and stops at a Germanic comparison horizon; guma, the second compound element, follows the separate earthling branch.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use
Merriam-Webster first-known-use report for bridegroom
bridegroom / bridegroom / 1525
Bridegroom — Definition, Word History, and First Known Useexact attested form / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Leiden Willeram, enemies of bride and bridegroom
fīunt / fīunt / circa 1100
Oudnederlands Woordenboek — fīuntreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Ormulum, bridegroom's friend
frẹ̄nd / friend / circa 1175, source-reported
Oxford English Dictionary — friend, n. & adj.reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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