Animal Husbandry & Marriage
Is there a connection somehow conceptually between the two, since both make use of the word “husband“? Some interesting etymology information on that word:
O.E. husbonda “male head of a household,” probably from O.N. husbondi “master of the house,” from hus “house” + bondi “householder, dweller, freeholder, peasant,” from buandi, prp. of bua “to dwell” The sense of “peasant farmer” (c.1220) is preserved in husbandry (first attested c.1380 in this sense). Beginning c.1290, replaced O.E. wer as “married man,” companion of wif, a sad loss for Eng. poetry. The verb “manage thriftily” is 1440, from the noun in the obsolete sense of “steward” (c.1450). Slang shortening hubby first attested 1688.
See:
- Animal husbandry on Wikipedia
- Humaniculture
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October 3rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
What an interesting bit of commentary. Editorializing is normally absent from dictionary definitions, but I think it added value here.