Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. · Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. · An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”). Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiongleenm
- Inherited-form mentionglēoang
- Inherited-form mention*glīwgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*glīwągem-pro · joy, mirth
- Derivation mention*gʰlew-ine-pro · to joke, make fun, enjoy
- Cognate mentionglesco
- Cognate mentionglýis · joy, glee, gladness
- Cognate mentionχλεύηgrc · joke, jest, scorn
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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