glee
English
/ɡliː/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
- (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
- (music) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English gle inherited from Old English glēo (glee, joy) inherited from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (joy, mirth, jesting, music, entertainment, glee, sport) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (enjoy, make fun, joke).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰlew-
Gloss
enjoy, make fun, joke
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
😜
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beam English
- enjoy English
- glee-beam English
- gleecraft English
- gleeful English
- gleefully English
- gleefulness English
- gleeless English
- gleemaiden English
- gleeman English
- gleesome English
- joy English
- joyance English
- joyant English
- joydom English
- joyful English
- joygasm English
- joyhood English
- joyish English
- joyless English
- joylike English
- joyness English
- joypad English
- joypop English
- joyride English
- joysome English
- joystick English
- killjoy English
- maiden English
- man English
- overjoy English
- rejoy English
- unjoy English
- χλευάζω Ancient Greek
- χλεύη Ancient Greek
- *gʰlew- Proto-Indo-European
- *glīwą Proto-Germanic
- gleo Old English
- gleobeam Old English
- gleomann Old English
- glēo Old English
- gle Middle English
- gleman Middle English
- gleocræft Middle English
- joye Middle English