köken: Inherited from Old French halaigre, from Latin alacrem (“lively; happy, joyful”). The Old French form alegre derived from a Vulgar Latin form *alacrum, and the form (h)aliegre from an *alĕcrum. The transition of Latin -cr- to French -gr- is paralleled in aigre, maigre; it may have been influenced partly by Old Occitan alegre. Doublet of allegro. More at Italian allegro.
köken: From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshu of circa 759 CE. A surface analysis suggests that this might be derived from 熟れる (ureru, “to ripen, mature”) + しい (shii, “adjective forming suffix”). However, it is unclear how the sense of "feeling mature" would match the sense of "glad".
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 깃브다 (Yale: kìs-pù-tá). Originally Middle Korean 기ᇧ다〮 (kìsktá, “to rejoice”) + -브- (-pù-, adjective-deriving suffix), hence literally "rejoiceful; rejoice-worthy", but the original verb is obsolete and the word is now perceived as monomorphemic. 기껍다 (gikkeopda) is from the same etymon.
jovial, joyful, cheerful, optimistic (who loves life, sees life as good, has joie de vivre; which expresses such feelings, character traits) · joyful, jovial, cheerful, optimistic (which causes such feelings, with contents that cause such feelings)
çekim: karşılaştırma dzīvespriecīgāks · üstünlük visdzīvespriecīgākais
eş: bezrūpīgs, draisks, jautrs, laimīgs, nebēdīgs
zıt: bēdīgs, drūms, nomākts, sērs, sērīgs, skumjš
köken: From dzīvesprieks (“joie de vivre”) + -īgs (with dzīvesprieks from dzīves (“life[gen.]”) + prieks (“joy, delight”)), with k > c via palatalization.
dzīvespriecīga jaunatne
dzīvespriecīgs raksturs
dzīvespriecīgs smaids
Etimoloji
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *veselъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéselas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus.