willingly; gladly; with pleasure; usually expressed verbally in English, with like, enjoy etc. · much; a lot · easily; often
eş: gerne, häufig, oft, lieb, möglichst
köken: From Middle High German gërne, from Old High German gërno, from Proto-West Germanic *gernō, from Proto-Germanic *gernô (“willingly, gladly”), an adverbial form of *gernaz (“eager, willing”). Akin to German Low German geren (Paderbornisch), Dutch gaarne, English yern, Swedish gärna, Danish gerne.
köken: From Middle Dutch gerne, gaerne, from Old Dutch *gerno, from Proto-West Germanic *gernō, from Proto-Germanic *gernô (“willingly, gladly”), an adverbial form of *gernaz (“willing”).
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek εὐχαρίστως (eukharístōs, “gratefully”), with semantic loan from French avec plaisir. By surface analysis, ευχάριστος (efcháristos) + -ως (-os).
Shortened from Old Latin *volupe, from Proto-Indo-European *wolp-i (“hope”, noun) with an anaptyctic vowel inserted between the l and p, from *welp- (“to hope”), whence Ancient Greek ἔλπω (élpō, “to cause to hope”). The root *welp- has been alternately constructed by Hamp as *welh₁p-, and taken as a compound of *welh₁- (“to wish, want”) + *h₁ep- (“to reach, get”), literally “desire reaching,…