bride

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A woman on her wedding day, or one who is about to marry.

   The bride wore a beautiful white dress.

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Simplified etymology

Bride comes from Old English bryd. It also appears in bridegroom, originally Old English brydguma, literally “bride-man”; when the poetic word guma “man” became unfamiliar, it was replaced by the unrelated but familiar groom. Bridal derives from Old English brydealu, “wedding feast,” combining bryd with ealu “ale-drinking.”

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognates Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German, Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese, Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High…

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