English
honeymoon
From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon.
The story
The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest. The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.
Today it means
noun The period of time immediately following a marriage.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / honeymoon