mirth
131γέλοι' — γέλοια , γέλοιος mirth provoking neut nom/voc/acc pl γέλοιε , γέλοιος mirth provoking masc voc sg γέλοιαι , γέλοιος mirth provoking fem nom/voc pl …
132merry — [OE] Merry goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *murgjaz, which appears to have been derived from a base meaning ‘short’. By the time it reached Old English, as myrige, it meant ‘pleasant’ – a semantic leap perhaps inspired by the notion of… …
