Bridal couple
The bride and groom - also wedding couple , bride and groom or married couple - denotes a couple on the day of their marriage or marriage ( wedding ); Bride denotes the woman, the groom the man. Traditionally, the wedding was preceded by an engagement , but this has lost much of its importance. After the wedding, the two are named wife and husband ( spouses ).
Word origin
The word pair "bride" (originally for "Newlyweds", since Luther in the East Middle importance "fiancee") and "groom" in German one of the few in which the male word form of the female derived (compare Movierung ). “Bride” comes from the Old High German brūt , but the exact origin of the word is unclear. The Middle High German briuten ("to marry, to be enclosed; to be enclosed to someone") is comparable . You can base Placed gemeingermanisch brūþi ( "Newlyweds, especially on the wedding day "), similar to gothic brūþs and Old French bru for " daughter " and in northern French dialect for "young wife". It is related to the Latin brutis (or ancient Greek βροὖτις): "married daughter, young woman".
The second part of word in "Bräuti- gam " dates back to the Middle High German gome or gume back, one in the NHG vanished word for "man" (related to Latin homo "man man"). The Old High German brūtigomo therefore literally meant “bride man” or “husband of the bride”.
For the bride and groom there are also the terms wedding woman and wedding party . The term married couple refers to the marriage ceremony , it can also be used in a non-religious context, for example in a free marriage .
Bride is also used in a figurative sense, for example in the lyrics of La Paloma : “The seafarer's bride is the sea ”. Bride is also a slang term for the woman “promised” to a man or for one's own girlfriend, with other joking meanings.
Courtship
Courtship or bridal show describes a type of social ritual in which a suitable bride and future wife is sought for or through a man willing to marry . The forms of such courtship , often associated with impressive behavior , are regulated more or - especially in modern societies - more weakly in the various societies by laws, customs and traditions.
In the ruling houses of the European cultural area , “to look for a bride” could include an expensive marriage strategy with diplomatic negotiations and long-distance travel; it was primarily about forming alliances between families and family associations ( clans ) of the same social class . Colloquially, bridal show also means that a man who is willing to marry goes to a lot of dance fun or that his family encourages domestic dance events.
A matchmaker is a mediator who, in the name of a man who is willing to marry, recruits the bride's parents for an engagement / marriage (formerly Freywerber , from free: woo a woman).
The courting is a farce , which in the 1819 's Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm stands.
See also
- Bride price (from husband to bride family)
- Bride gift (in the Orient by the husband to the bride)
- Brautbuch (preciously decorated German prayer book of the 17th century)
- Bridal service (half marriage: groom has to work for the bride family)
- Dowry (dowry from the bride's family to the bride)
- Sponsa Christi ("Bride of Christ")
- Bride robbery (kidnapping a girl or a woman for marriage)
- Marriage brokerage (arranged marriage)
- Choice of partner (general)
literature
- Clausdieter Schott : marriage and marriage ceremony. From the handover of the bride to the civil wedding. 2nd Edition. Publishing house for registry offices, Frankfurt / M. 1992.
- Angelika-Benedicta Hirsch : Why the woman wore the hat: A short cultural history of the wedding ritual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-60437-3 .
- Lexicon entries: bride. Groom. In: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm : German dictionary . S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854-1960, Volume 2, Columns 330-333 and 335/336.
- Lexicon entries: bridal gazing. Courtiers. In: Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Leipzig 1793–1801, Volume 1, Column 1171.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Word entry: bride. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved July 30, 2019
- ↑ a b c Duden online : Bride. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
- ↑ Jürgen Martin: The "Ulmer Wundarznei": Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose of the 15th century (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 52). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 122.
- ^ Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th edition. Edited by Walther Mitzka . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 97: Braut , and p. 97–98: Bräutigam .
- ↑ Word entry: bridegroom. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved July 30, 2019
- ↑ a b Duden online : Groom. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
- ↑ Word entry: Brautschau. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved July 30, 2019
- ↑ Duden online : courtship. Bride show. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
- ↑ Lexicon entry: Brautschauen. In: Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Leipzig 1793–1801, Volume 1, Column 1171.
- ↑ Lexicon entry: Brautwêrber. In: Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Leipzig 1793–1801, Volume 1, Column 1171.