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This is quite inaccurate in several areas.
In particular, “bride” and “bridle” being so similar in modern English is mostly coincidence. “Bride” comes from “bryd” and might originate from a term that meant “daughter in law,” while “bridle” comes from “bridel” that, in turn, comes from a Germanic word that is the same ancestor as the verb “braid.” Thus, “bride” and “bridle” are unrelated, but “bridle” and “braid” are closely related.
While the etymology of “wife” is accurate, it is inaccurate to think this has anything to do with her being subservient; “groom” comes from a term that meant “boy” and later evolved into “male servant.” In other words, the exact opposite of what it actually ended up.
Keep in mind English underwent a Latinizing at one point. There are a number of modern words with spellings unrelated to their origin, and a lot of similarities in spellings that hint at relationships which are not real.
Actually the “groom” thing is more accurate than you might think. These “folk etymologies” have been going on for a long (long) time and way back in middle English people noticed the similarity between the bridgyma (see how long ago it was? y was still pronounced “oo”) of the wedding ceremony and the grym of the stable and just assumed that the r had somehow disappeared. Well, we have the advantage of documentary evidence. Gymas of brids never had rs and gryms of hrosses always did.
Picnics were never places where people went to choose slaves and, while many niggardly people owned slaves, the word niggardly had nothing to do with a corruption of the Spanish negro, black. Folk etymologies are folk etymologies because they are not etymologies.
In short, he’s a groom, not a “goom”, because people believed they were related in the 14th and 15th centuries. No edit function for posted too fast.
One note here: what Carly is saying is simply what he believes regarding the origin of the words ‘bride’ and ‘bridal’
And considering their views on marriage and what is meant (a couple thousand years ago), surprised they are still going through with it instead of simply getting a Civil Union (or the equivalent in the US)
Because the meaning of marriage has changed over the years. It is still a civil contract, but it is no longer between the bride’s Male guardian and the man, but between the two people to each other. The only reason the Church ever got involved was because it gave them control over who was married and thus the legitimate heirs to the property.