ˈmærɪdʒ
The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a relationship.
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Matthew 22:23-30, KJV
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for "they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection,
Luke 20:34-36, KJV
But if there is no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance when we are married and have more occasion to know one another
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1
mariage /mariage/
Old French Period, France
mariatge /mariatge/
Medieval Period, England