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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. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE-ROMEOS***************

History

In Western culture, the custom of a newlywed couple going on a holiday together originated in early 19th century Great Britain. Western culture (sometimes equated with Western Civilization) are terms which are used to refer to Cultures of European origin The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands 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. A wedding is the Ceremony in which two people are united in Marriage. [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. Events and trends Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire

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. The Belle Époque (bɛːl e'pɔk French for "Beautiful Era" was a period in European history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until 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. The French Riviera (Côte d'Azur Occitan: Còsta Azzura) is one of the most famous resort areas in the world extending along the Mediterranean Sea west Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the

Origin of the word

The Oxford English Dictionary offers no etymology, but gives examples dating back to the 16th century. The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English Etymology is the study of the History of Words &mdash when they entered a language from what source and how their form and meaning have changed over time The Merriam-Webster dictionary reports the etymology as from "the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest" (1546).

A honeymoon can also be the first moments a newly-wed couple spend together, or the first holiday they spend together to celebrate their marriage.

“ 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. Pleasure is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience Happiness, Entertainment, Enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria, but is hard Samuel Johnson (often referred to as Dr Johnson) (18 September ”

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. Lunar phase (or Moon phase refers to the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer usually on Earth 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 excedingly, the likelyhood 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. Mead (ˈmiːd is a fermented Alcoholic beverage made of Honey, Water, and Yeast. From this practice we get honeymoon or, as the French say, lune de miel[4][5]

There are many calques of the word honeymoon from English into other languages. In Linguistics, a calque (kælk or loan translation is a Word or Phrase borrowed from another Language by Literal, word-for-word The Welsh word for honeymoon is mis mêl (honey month). Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic In Hebrew it is 'Yerach D'vash translated to honey month (interestingly the word 'Yerach'-Month is very close to the word 'Yare'ach'-Moon. The two words are spelled alike: ירח). In Arabic it is shahr el 'assal also translated to honey month. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The Spanish word for honeymoon is la luna de miel (the moon of honey), and the Italian luna di miele (same translation). The Persian word for it is mah e asal which has both the translations honeymoon and honey month (mah in Persian meaning both moon and month).

References

  1. ^ Ginger Strand. "Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven", The Believer, January 2008. The Believer is an American Magazine, primarily about literature  
  2. ^ Sylvain Venayre. Le Temps du voyage noces. L’Histoire no 321, juin 2007. ISSN 0182-2411 p. 57
  3. ^ Venayre, op. cit. , p. 58
  4. ^ Gayre, Robert (1986). Wassail! In Mazers of Mead. Brewers Publications - Boulder, CO. ISBN 0-937381-00-4.  , p. 22
  5. ^ Acton, Bryan (1968). Making Mead. The Amateur Winemaker. SBN 900841-07-9.  , p. 14

Dictionary

honeymoon

-noun

  1. The period of time immediately following a marriage.
  2. A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.
  3. A period of unusually mild feelings, especially immediately following the start of a new term or relationship (e.g., in business). Now that the honeymoon is over, it’s time for us to get down to the business at hand.

-verb

  1. To have a honeymoon (trip as a couple after once's wedding).
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