How did the word Honeymoon come into Existance?

Question

How did it get the Modern Day connotation?

Answer 1

its just simple just I LOVE U

it shows the grace of loved onces to each other.

thts y i luv U

Answer 2

there is  a legend that the brides father used to give honey to the groom after marriage so that their  their marriage will give them so much happiness to touch the moon or sumthing of that sort!

Answer 3

me and my friends were joking around one day like thinking of ways honeymoon could have gotten its name and here is one of them.

ok the guy says hey honey and then she moons him or likewise.

ya

anyway i don't really know so ya

Answer 4

One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon. This, the first known literary reference to the honeymoon, was penned in 1552, in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum. Huloet writes:

“ Hony mone, a term proverbially applied to such as be newly married, which will not fall out at the first, but th'one loveth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceadinge love appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people call the hony mone."

In many parts of Europe it was traditional to supply a newly married couple with enough mead for a month, ensuring happiness and fertility. From this practice we get honeymoon or, as the French say, lune de miel.

AJM

Answer 5

The Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day is "honeymoon." It will prevail until midnight Greenwich time Sunday, Oct. 14. You can check out the often misunderstood history of this word at

: : http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd

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According to Brewer's:

Honeymoon.

The month after marriage, or so much of it as is spent away from home; so called from the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honey-wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage. Attila, the Hun, indulged so freely in hydromel at his wedding-feast that he died. 1

"It was the custom of the higher order of the Teutons . to drink mead or metheglin (a beverage made from honey) for thirty days after every wedding. From this comes the expression 'to spend the honeymoon.'"-W. Pulleyn: Etymological Compendium, § 9, p. 142.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board...

Honeymoon was originally a reference to the first month of a marriage. The honey represents the sweetness of new love and the moon signifies the changing relationship and that this love will quickly wane. The word first appears in John Heywood’s 1546 A Dialogue Conteinyng The Nomber In Effect Of All The Prouerbes In The Englishe Tongue:

    It was yet but hony moone.

Richard Huloet’s 1552 Abcedarium Anglico Latinum described it as:

    Hony mone, a terme prouerbially applied to such as be newe maried, whiche wyll not fall out at the fyrste, but thone loueth the other at the beginnynge excedyngly, the likelyhode of theyr exceadynge loue appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people cal the hony mone, Aphrodisia, feriæ, hymenæ.

The verb, meaning to take a honeymoon trip, is more recent, dating to the early 19th century. From an 1821 letter by Mary R. Mitford appearing in Alfred G. L’Estrange’s The Life of M.R. Mitford:

    How did I know but you were tourifying or honeymooning?

There is a story floating around the internet that honeymoon derives from the Babylonian practice of a new father-in-law giving mead, or honey beer, to his new son-in-law for the first month of their marriage. This is utter bunk.

(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/sit...

1546, hony moone, but probably much older, from honey in reference to the new marriage's sweetness, and moon in reference to how long it would probably last, or from the changing aspect of the moon: no sooner full than it begins to wane. Fr. has cognate lune de miel, but Ger. version is flitterwochen (pl.), from flitter "tinsel."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term...

Why did the bride's father want his new son-in-law dead drunk for the first month of his daughter's marriage? In any event, that little story is, as we etymologists say, full of hooey. Your trusty Webster's is correct: "honeymoon" first appeared in 1546, neatly rendering Babylonian drinking habits moot.

The most likely explanation of "honeymoon" is the obvious one -- that the first month or so of any marriage is the "sweetest," free of the stresses and strains which later try every marriage. I say "month or so," but there's no evidence that the "moon" in "honeymoon" has anything to do with the lunar cycle. A more plausible interpretation, first proposed by Samuel Johnson, is that "moon" really refers to the waxing and waning of the moon. In this somewhat cynical scenario, the "moon" of marriage is full at its start, leaving only the natural waning to follow. Of course, the moon always waxes full again, so hope springs eternal.

http://www.word-detective.com/041798.htm...

Those of you with romantic constitutions had better look away now. There are many invented stories about the origin of this word, mostly so sickly that I cringe at repeating them. There is, for example, the suggestion that at some time in some place there was a custom for newlyweds to drink a potion containing honey every day for the first month after the nuptials. But the word only turns up in English in the middle of the sixteenth century. Let me quote you a passage from Richard Huloet’s Abecedarium Anglico Latinum of 1552 (in modernised spelling): “Honeymoon, a term proverbially applied to such as be new married, which will not fall out at the first, but the one loveth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceeding love appearing to assuage, the which time the vulgar people call the honey moon”. Putting it simply, it was that charmed period when married love was at first as sweet as honey, but which waned like the moon and in roughly the same period of time.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hon1...

A holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.

An early harmonious period in a relationship: The honeymoon between the new President and the press was soon over.

intr.v., -mooned, -moon·ing, -moons.

To go on a honeymoon.

[Perhaps from a comparison of the moon, which wan

Answer 6

The ancient practices of kidnaping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine called mead ,date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns from A.D. 433 to A.D. 453.

That is how "HONEY" word came into existence

Northern European history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village.It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time.Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people.

The word "MOON" is referred to woman in ancient times as their monthly cycle is related to the life cycle of moon.

Hence, "HONEYMOON" came into existence.

Today, the newly wed goes away from their family & friends to know eachother as in ancient times the groom hid his moon(bride), away from her family for somedays to make her own.

Answer 7

I'd like to think that it's because that is when newlyweds just absolutely fall in love with their moon so they call out "Honey, look at the moon..."

So it shortened to Honeymoon...

But it is not really modern...it has been around for quite some time.

Answer 8

A honeymoon is the traditional holiday taken by newlyweds to celebrate their marriage in intimacy and seclusion. Today, honeymoons by Westerners are sometimes celebrated somewhere exotic or otherwise considered special and romantic.

History

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In Western culture, the custom of a newlywed couple going on a holiday together originated in early 19th century Great Britain. Upper-class couples would take a "bridal tour", sometimes accompanied by friends or family, to visit relatives that had not been able to attend the wedding.[1] The practice soon spread to the European continent and was known as voyage à la façon anglaise (English-style voyage) in France from the 1820s on.

Honeymoons in the modern sense (i.e. a pure holiday voyage undertaken by the married couple) became widespread during the Belle Époque,[2] as one of the first instances of modern mass tourism. This came about in spite of initial disapproval by contemporary medical opinion (which worried about women's frail health) and by savoir vivre guidebooks (which deplored the public attention drawn to what was assumed to be the wife's sexual initiation).[3] The most popular honeymoon destinations at the time were the Côte d'Azur and Italy, particularly its seaside resorts and romantic cities such as Rome, Verona or Venice.