mirth
noun/mɜɹθ/US/mɜːθ/UK
Etymology
From Middle English merth, myrthe, murhthe, from Old English myrġþ (“mirth, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgiþu (“briefness, brevity”); equivalent to merry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch merchte (“pleasure, joy, delight”).
- inherited from merth
Definitions
The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
- But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
- And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.
That which causes merriment.
- Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
The neighborhood
Derived
mirthful, mirthfully, mirthfulness, mirthless, mirthlessly, mirthlessness, mirthquake, mirthsome, mirthy
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mirth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA