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Why is it called a HONEYMOON?

Why is it called a HONEYMOON?

  • I was wondering why your honeymoon is called that, does anyone know if it has a certain meaning?

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    The Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, in part, from an ancient Northern European custom in which newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, drank a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead. The ancient practices of kidnaping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns from A.D. 433 to A.D. 453. So that leaves us with the question of where the "moon" in the word "honeymoon" originates. One piece of folklore relates that the origin of the word moon comes from a cynical inference. To the Northern Europeans the terms referred to the body's monthly cycle and, its combination with honey, suggested that not all moon's of married life were as sweet as the first. British prose writers and poets, in the 16th and 17th centuries, often made use of the Nordic interpretation of honeymoon as a waxing and waning of marital affection. As it is with many of our wedding customs, this one also has an alternative explanation of its origin. The term "honeymoon," we are told, comes from an old northern European custom in which newlyweds would, for a month, consume a daily cup of mead, a brew that is made from honey.

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HONEY: Because it is supposed to be a sweet period for the newly weds. MOON: Not the one you see at night, but MONTH, referring to the traditional period it lasted. So we can say literally it means "sweet time"

Bigosi

The Oxford English Dictionary offers no etymology on the word "honeymoon", but gives examples dating back to the 16th century, in which the author compared, in a cynical fashion, a full moon to the love of a newly married couple, which is sweetest (as honey) before it begins to wane. This, the first known literary reference to the honeymoon, was penned in 1552, in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum. Huleot 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 excedingly, the likelyhood of their exceadinge love appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people call the hony mone.”

Jacob F

Sorry in advance couldnt resist. He gets your "sweet honey" And after the vacation you will owe everyone "under the moon" money!

celeste1070

Because your with your HONEY under the MOON haha jk actually it's because the wedding party would always get together and drink mead (fermented honey) together.

Rock On

because once there was a couple that traveled to the moon and had lots of intercourse and ate lots of honey. hehe, i don't know...

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coorissee

Because you're with your honey under the moon. ;]

pocketlabelz

Cause you are with your "Honey" and you feel "Over the Moon".

ChemoAngel

Because it is sweet and sticky too...

T.T.K.

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