merry

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  • From Middle English mery, merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, from Old English meriġe, miriġe, myriġe, myreġe, myrġe, from Proto-Germanic *murguz ("short, slow"), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus ("short"). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry, Middle Dutch mergelijc ("pleasant, agreeable, joyful"), Norwegian dialectal myrjel, Latin brevis ("short, small, narrow, shallow"), Ancient Greek βραχύς ("short"). brief.
  • French merise

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