Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. · Favour; propitious regard. · A drink bought by one person for another.
To have (a smile) on one's face. · To express by smiling. · To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. · To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).
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- Root classification mention*(s)mey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsmilenenm · to smile
- Derivation mention*smîlengml · to smile
- Derivation mentionsmielengmh
- Derivation mentionsmielēngoh
- Derivation mention*smilēngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*smilānągem-pro · to smile
- Derivation mention*smey-ine-pro · to laugh, be glad, wonder
- Cognate mentionsmileda
- Cognate mentionsmilasv
- Cognate mentionsmílafo · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmieljestq · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmielennds · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmuilennl · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmielengmh · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmierōngoh · to smile
- Cognate mentionsmerianang · to laugh at
- Cognate mentionsmercianang
- Cognate mentionsmirken
- Cognate mentionmīrorla · to wonder at
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