marry
English
/ˈmæɹɪ/, /ˈmæɹi/, /ˈmɛɹi/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- (transitive) To be joined to (to) (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
- (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
- (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
- (transitive) To unite; to join together into a close union.
- (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
- (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English marien (marry) borrowed from Old French marier derived from Latin marito, marītāre (wed) derived from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (boy, girl, young man).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*méryos
Gloss
boy, girl, young man
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimarriage English
- cybermarriage English
- dismarry English
- extramarriage English
- inmarriage English
- intermarriage English
- intermarrier English
- intermarrieth English
- intermarry English
- intramarriage English
- intramarry English
- levirate marriage English
- marriable English
- marriage English
- marriageability English
- marriageable English
- marriageless English
- marriagelike English
- married English
- marriedness English
- marrier English
- marriest English
- marrieth English
- midmarriage English
- mismarriage English
- mismarry English
- nonmarriage English
- nonmarried English
- outmarriage English
- postmarriage English
- premarriage English
- remarriage English
- remarrier English
- remarry English
- unmarriable English
- unmarriage English
- unmarried English
- unmarry English
- marito, marītāre Latin
- marītāre Latin
- marītō, marito, marītāre Latin
- *méryos Proto-Indo-European
- मर्य Sanskrit
- mariage Middle English
- maried Middle English
- marien Middle English
- mariage Old French
- marier Old French
- morwyn Welsh
- môr-forwyn Welsh
- mathier Norman
- marier Middle French
- *merkā Proto-Celtic
- *morēnā Proto-Celtic
- *máryas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *máryas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- marit Tok Pisin
- mārena Maori
- *moruɨn Proto-Brythonic
- maarit Fiji Hindi
- marrier
- married
- unmarry
- remarry
- dismarry
- marriest
- marriage
- mismarry
- marrieth
- remarrier
- unmarried
- marriable
- unmarriage
- intermarry
- nonmarried
- inmarriage
- intramarry
- remarriage
- mismarriage
- midmarriage
- outmarriage
- nonmarriage
- premarriage
- marriedness
- unmarriable
- postmarriage
- marriageable
- intermarrier
- marriagelike
- antimarriage
- marriageless
- intermarriage
- extramarriage
- cybermarriage
- intramarriage
- intermarrieth
- marriageability
- levirate marriage