mery
Middle English
/ˈmɛriː(ə)/
adj
Definitions
- Happy, joyful, pleased; in a good mood or state of mind:
- Attractive, good-looking; pleasing to one's eyes.
- Having a good, nice or pleasing scent or smell.
- Powerful, mighty, tough; having much strength.
- (rare) Full of humor due to drink.
- (rare) Active, fast, vigorous.
- (rare) Intelligent, smart, learned.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English meriġe inherited from Proto-Germanic *murguz (slow, short) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (short, brief).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mréǵʰus
Gloss
short, brief
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
短
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- merrily English
- merriment English
- merriness English
- merry English
- merrymaker English
- merrymaking English
- merrymeeting English
- merrythought English
- mirth English
- overmerry English
- unmerry English
- brevis Latin
- brūma Latin
- борзо́й Russian
- βραχίων Ancient Greek
- βραχύς Ancient Greek
- *mreǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mréǵʰus Proto-Indo-European
- *murgijaz Proto-Germanic
- *murguz Proto-Germanic
- meriġe Old English
- myrgan Old English
- myrgþ Old English
- myriġlīċe Old English
- merily Middle English
- merines Middle English
- mirien Middle English
- miriġness Middle English
- myrthe Middle English
- myrthen Middle English
- *breɣʷis Proto-Italic