{"id":6628,"date":"2024-03-21T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2024-03-21T03:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:48:34","slug":"word-of-the-day-mirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2024\/03\/21\/word-of-the-day-mirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Mirth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s word of the day, courtesy of the Dictionary Project, is <em>mirth<\/em>. <em>Mirth<\/em> is a noun that means \u201cmerriment, laughter, glee,\u201d according to the project\u2019s email. Dictionary.com provides \u201cgaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter\u201d or \u201camusement or laughter\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/mirth\">https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/mirth<\/a>). Happy definitions, those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word existed in \u201cOld English <em>myrg\u00f0<\/em> \u2018joy, pleasure, eternal bliss, salvation\u2019 (original senses now obsolete), from Proto-Germanic *<em>murgitha<\/em> (source also of Middle Dutch <em>merchte<\/em>), noun of quality from *<em>murgjo<\/em>&#8211; (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/merry\">merry<\/a>; also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/-th#etymonline_v_24667\">-th<\/a> (2)). By early 13c. as \u2018expressions or manifestations of happiness, rejoicing;\u2019 by mid-14c. as \u2018state or feeling of merriment, jollity, hilarity\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/search?q=mirth\">https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/search?q=mirth<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had a long day with no chance to write. It\u2019s kind of sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now it\u2019s late, and I\u2019m too tired to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We just got back from visiting my 96-year-old mother-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we\u2019re watching Resident Alien, which is providing us a bit of mirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image is Alan Tudyk (https:\/\/www.goodfon.com\/films\/wallpaper-filmy-serial-zaslanets-iz-kosmosa-resident-alien-aktior-alan.html).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s word of the day, courtesy of the Dictionary Project, is mirth. Mirth is a noun that means \u201cmerriment, laughter, glee,\u201d according to the project\u2019s email. Dictionary.com provides \u201cgaiety or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[238,395,284,625,626],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-word-of-the-day","tag-dictionary","tag-etymology","tag-linguistics","tag-mirth","tag-resident-alien","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}