hoyw.
gay, joyful, merry
Meaning & usage
gay, joyful, merry
gay, homosexual
Where this word comes from
From Middle Welsh hoyw, hoev. * Schumacher and Johnston identify this as cognate to Latin saevus (“savage”). * Isaac instead posits origin from Proto-Celtic *aisus, with a metathesis of *-s- > *-h- to the beginning of the word. No etymology was provided in the GPC until the 2020s, when a mention of these two etymologies was added.
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