100 Words for Joy - Part Three
June 25th 2008 01:23
100 Words for Joy - Part Three
Sorry for the delay oh gentle readers! I got called out yestereday to fill in for some one.
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Retruning to the topic of Joy most modern European words that be be translated in Englsih as Joy Happiness or Galdness derive from two or three IndoEuropeans stems.
One is Latin Gaudium / gaudire from *gao ?
This stem gave us Greek geethosunee geethos ganos
Latin Gaudium and gaudire which contracted to Old and Modern French Joie and also changed to Provencal and Catalan joia and Spanish joya.
Glad is Germanic. Scots has glaid and Old Englsih Glaed and Old Norse had gladhur.
Modern German and Dtuch has glatt which means smooth.
The stem seems to be "gladho and so perhaps a cousin to gaudium given the possibility of metathesis changing u to l and the l moving to a frontal postion.
German and the Nordic and Romance languages also like the Sinitic group have words that mean both happiness and good luck.
from Latin Felix stem felic- comes Felicitat felicidade and maybe Romanina fericire?
Danish has lykke lykkig lykke and Dutch gelukkig.
Enjoy!
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