marry (v.)

c.1300, from O.Fr. marier, from L. maritare “to wed, marry, give in marriage,” from maritus “married man, husband,” of uncertain origin, perhaps ult. from “provided with a *mari,” a young woman, from PIE base *meri- “young wife,” akin to *meryo- “young man” (cf. Skt.  marya- “young man, suitor”). Said from 1530 of the priest, etc., who performs the rite.

In my early teens, I remember compiling and using the zapper marry.c, a little tool to clean your entries from utmp/wtmp/lastlog/acct/pacct UNIX files. It was written by Julian Assange, who also wrote strobe.c, the first open source port scanner. I wonder to this day why he chose such a name for a zapper, doesn’t that deserve a Wikileak?