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gai.

cheerful; merry

3 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɡɛ//ɡe/

  1. cheerful; merry

  2. gay; homosexual

Where this word comes from

From Old French gai, from Old Occitan gai, from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”); or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”), both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz (“lively, fast, quick”); or (per Liberman, Chance, Meier) from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] → [ɡ] as in French gaine. Doublet of vague in that case. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

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