when did the word Honeymoon come from?

Answer 1

Well, seeing as how everyone's beat me to Wikipedia, I'll just share this anecdote...

When I was younger, I didn't really understand the concept of honeymoons; for example, why the kids couldn't come if it was a second marriage. Someone finally discreetly pointed out to me what was supposed to happen on the honeymoon, to which I blurted out...

"Oh, so that's why they call it a honeymoon... because you moon your honey!"

My mom and grandma didn't stop laughing for about ten minutes.

Answer 2

The origin of the word honeymoon
Look up honeymoon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.The Oxford English Dictionary offers no etymology at all, but dates the word back to the 16th century:

"The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure" (Samuel Johnson); originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of newly-married persons to the changing moon which is no sooner full than it begins to wane; now, usually, the holiday spent together by a newly-married couple, before settling down at home.
One of the oldest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was actually a sardonic reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon. This, the first literary reference to the honeymoon was penned in 1552, in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum. Huleot writes:

Hony mone, a terme proverbially applied to such as be newe maried, whiche wyll not fall out at the fyrste, but thone loveth the other at the beginnynge excedyngly, the likelyhode of theyr exceadynge love appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people cal the hony mone.
It has also been said[citation needed] that the origins of this word date back to the times of Babylon. In order to increase the virility and fertility of the newlyweds, the father of the bride would provide his son in law with all the mead (a honey-based drink) he could drink during the first month of the marriage (and therefore "moon"). Given that the English word is only four hundred years old, direct attribution to Babylon is questionable, though often repeated. The custom of drinking mead after a wedding for a month was also a medieval custom, however, and in practice at the time the word first appeared. [citation needed] [original research?]

Other possible explanations of the word honeymoon have to do with the date that weddings traditionally took place. Weddings once commonly took place upon the Summer solstice both for religious reasons earlier on and also for the practical reason that it was the time between the main planting and harvesting of crops. As it was at this time of year that honey was first harvested, it is possible that this is the source.[citation needed] [original research?]

Another alternative is that "Honey Moon" is a name given to the moon when its path is close to the southern horizon. Its light shines though the haze and dust of our atmosphere giving its light a honey color for the whole month. [citation needed][original research?]

Satirists have said that a "Honeymoon salad" is "lettuce alone".

The Welsh word for honeymoon is mis mêl (honey month).

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Answer 3

The word month comes from "moon". The cycle of the moon (28 days) was the approximate length of the month before Julius Ceasar fixed the calendar. The first moon that a couple was married was filled with sweetness, and what is sweeter than honey?

Answer 4

from what i remember being told- a honeymoon used to last a whole moon phase- from full moon to full moon...

Answer 5

two people were sitinh on the beach looking at the moon and eat honeybuns.