Editing Honeymoon (section)

==Etymology==
The honeymoon was originally the period following marriage, "characterized by love and happiness," as attested since 1546.<ref name="oed">{{cite news |work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88181 |title=Honeymoon |access-date=2018-06-15 |archive-date=2019-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214032120/http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88181 |url-status=live }} ''s.v.''</ref> The word may allude to "the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest".<ref>{{cite news |work=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honeymoon |title=Honeymoon |access-date=2018-06-15 |archive-date=2018-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030121/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honeymoon |url-status=live }} ''s.v.''</ref>

According to a different version, of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]:

{{Blockquote|The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but [[wikt:tenderness|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.}}

Today, ''honeymoon'' has a positive meaning, but originally it may have referred to the inevitable waning of love, like a [[moon phase|phase of the moon]]. In 1552, [[Richard Huloet]] wrote:

{{quote|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 exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceadinge love appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people call the hony mone.|Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum pro Tyrunculis<ref name="oed"/>}}

In many modern languages, the word for a honeymoon is a [[calque]] (e.g., {{langx|fr|lune de miel}}) or near-calque.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Persian has a similar word, {{transliteration|fa|mah-e-asal}}, which translates to 'month of honey' or 'moon of honey'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ماه عس in English - Persian-English Dictionary |url=https://en.glosbe.com/fa/en/%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7%25D9%2587%2520%25D8%25B9%25D8%25B3 |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=Glosbe |archive-date=2022-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524035741/https://en.glosbe.com/fa/en/%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7%25D9%2587%2520%25D8%25B9%25D8%25B3 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A 19th-century theory claimed that the word alludes to "the custom of the higher order of the Teutones to drink [[Mead]], or Metheglin, a beverage made with ''honey'', for thirty days after every wedding",<ref>{{cite book |author=Pulleyn, William |title=The Etymological Compendium |date=1853 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NAAXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA178 |page=178 |access-date=2018-06-15 |archive-date=2022-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524035746/https://books.google.com/books?id=NAAXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA178 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham |title=Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |edition=4th |date=c. 1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA413 |page=413 |author-link=Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |access-date=2018-06-15 |archive-date=2022-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524035741/https://books.google.com/books?id=8AARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA413 |url-status=live }}</ref> but the theory has been challenged.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brohaugh |first1=Bill |title=Everything you know about English is wrong |url=https://archive.org/details/everythingyoukno0000broh |url-access=registration |date=2008 |publisher=Sourcebooks |location=Naperville, Ill. |isbn=9781402211355 |page=[https://archive.org/details/everythingyoukno0000broh/page/92 92]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Monger |first=George P. |title=Marriage customs of the world: An encyclopedia of dating customs and wedding traditions |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA |isbn=9781598846645 |page=352 |edition=Expanded 2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avDXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA352 |access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref>

The first recorded use of the word ''honeymoon'' to refer to the vacation after the wedding appeared in 1791, in a translation of German folk stories. The first recorded native-English use of the word appeared in 1804.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shamsian |first=Jacob |title=The mysterious origin of the word 'honeymoon' |url=https://www.insider.com/honeymoon-word-meaning-etymology-2017-3 |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}</ref>