myrge

• miriġe, murġe, myriġe, myreġe, meriġe, merġe

From Proto-West Germanic *murgī, from Proto-Germanic *murgijaz, *murguz, from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”).

For the sense-development, compare pastime, German Kurzweil, kurzweilig. Cognate with the first element of Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant”), Old High German murg (“short”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.je/, [ˈmyrˠ.je]

myrġe

1. pleasant, attractive, enjoyable

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• myrgþ (“mirth”)

• Middle English: mery, merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, merye, myrry, myry, miry, mirye, myriȝe, myrye, murye, miri, meri, mury
  • English: merry
  • Scots: mirry, mery

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “myrġe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.