merry
要点陽気な
意味
- 陽気な,愉快な,快活な
- 《話》一杯きげんの
例文
Little did I dream of hearing such a merry song.
そんなに楽しい歌を聞こうとは、夢にも思いませんでした。
Merry Christmas, Marilla! Merry Christmas, Matthew!
メリー・クリスマス、マリラ!メリー・クリスマス、マシュー!
The children are riding the merry-go-round.
子どもたちは、メリーゴーランドに乗ってるよ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English myrie, merie, mery, from Old English myrġe, myriġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.