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bridegroom

[brahyd-groom, -groom] Origin

bride·groom

[brahyd-groom, -groom]
noun
a newly married man or a man about to be married.

Origin:
before 1000; late Middle English (Scots ) brydgrome, alteration of Middle English bridegome, Old English brȳdguma (brȳd bride1 + guma man, cognate with Latin homō), with final element conformed to groom
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bridegroom (ˈbraɪdˌɡruːm, -ˌɡrʊm)
 
n
a man who has just been or is about to be married
 
[C14: changed (through influence of groom) from Old English brӯdguma, from brӯdbride1 + guma man; related to Old Norse brūthgumi, Old High German brūtigomo]

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bridegroom
O.E. brydguma "suitor," from bryd "bride" (see bride) + guma "man" (cf. O.N. gumi, O.H.G. gomo, cognate with L. homo "man"). Ending altered 16c. by folk etymology after groom "groom, boy, lad" (q.v.). Common Germanic compound (cf. O.S. brudigumo,
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O.N. bruðgumi, O.H.G. brutigomo, Ger. Bräutigam), except in Goth., which used bruþsfaþs, lit. "bride's lord."
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