Marriage
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Marriage
I’m studying French. I note that the word for the town hall is “la maire”. A town hall is a place where a couple would go to get married at a wedding. The French word for wedding is “mariage”. The French word for husband? Mari. All from Latin, as, it appears, are to be found in the romance languages.
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Re: Marriage
Ah, yes: [W]hen two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition until death do them part. [G.B. Shaw, preface to "Getting Married," 1908]
Etymonline has an entry for marry, and states, "In some Indo-European languages there were distinct "marry" verbs for men and women,...". In Russian, at least, this is not in the past tense. Unless something has changed in the 16 years since I left.
Etymonline has an entry for marry, and states, "In some Indo-European languages there were distinct "marry" verbs for men and women,...". In Russian, at least, this is not in the past tense. Unless something has changed in the 16 years since I left.
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