From Latin 'maritare' (to wed) — displaced native 'weddian,' creating the odd split of 'marrying' at a 'wedding.'
To join in marriage; to take as a husband or wife.
From Old French 'marier' (to marry, to give in marriage, to join in wedlock), from Latin 'marītāre' (to wed, to give in marriage, to provide with a husband), from 'marītus' (husband, a married man, a man in a conjugal relationship), a noun and adjective probably derived from 'mās' (a male, a man — genitive 'maris'). The Latin 'mās' may ultimately connect to PIE *mer- (young man, young woman — a term for a person of marriageable age), which also produced Sanskrit 'maryā' (young woman, a girl) and possibly 'mare' (a female horse) through an extended meaning of a mature animal. The word entered English
English has two parallel word families for the concept of getting married: the Latin-derived 'marry/marriage/marital' and the Germanic 'wed/wedding.' The French-derived 'marry' is the everyday verb, while the Old English 'wed' survives mainly in the nouns 'wedding' and 'wedlock.' In legal English, 'matrimony' (from Latin