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Not maybe. The word honeymoon relates to the sweetness of the period just after marriage and how this will not last very long. The connection with honey, mead, drinking, etc. is a Victorian myth. https://www.etymonline.com/word/honeymoon#etymonline_v_12142 https://archive.org/details/everythingyoukno0000broh https://books.google.de/books?id=avDXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA352&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/88181 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-dialogue-conteinyng-th_heywood-john_1561 https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=a30&datum=1774&pos=37&size=25 https://archive.org/details/etymologicalcom00pullgoog
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