Etymograph

English

marriage value

From marriage + value.

A compound of marriage + value

Latin marītus ‘lover; nuptial’

Latin marītō ‘to marry’

Old French marier ‘to marry’

Old French mariage ‘marriage’

Middle English mariage

English marriage

Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- ‘to be strong’

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Latin valeō ‘to be strong, be worth’

Old French valoir

Old French value

Middle English valew

English value

Today it means

noun The difference in value between a leasehold interest in land and the hypothetical value of its reversionary interest were the leasehold to be determined, which typically increases as the leasehold draws towards its end; frequently considered the market value chargeable to the tenant for a long extension of the leasehold, or for the purchase of the reversionary interest.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / marriage value