Groom

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 45

grōōm, n. one who has the charge of horses: a title of several officers of the royal household: a bridegroom.— v.t. to tend, as a horse.— n. Grooms′man , the attendant on a bridegroom at his marriage. [Prob. from A.S. gum a (in bride groom ), a man, Goth. gum a , Ice. gum i , L. homo .]