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One of the Swedish lessons I did today was about words for emotions and related words. So I thought I’d find out more about some of them.<\/p>\n
There are several words for happy<\/strong> in Swedish:<\/p>\n – glad<\/strong> [\u0261l\u0251\u02d0d] = delighted, glad, happy, pleased, jolly, lively, bright, bubbly, cheerful, elated, merry, pleasant, sprightly, vivid, gleeful, joyful, joyous, jubilant.<\/p>\n It comes from the Old Swedish gla\u00feer<\/em> (glad, cheerful), from Old Norse gla\u00f0r<\/em> (glad), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz<\/em> (shiny, gleaming, radiant, happy, glossy, smooth, flat), from Proto-Indo-European *g\u02b0lad\u02b0-<\/em>, derivation of *g\u02b0el-<\/em> (to shine). The English word glad comes from the same root, though via Old English.<\/p>\n – n\u00f6jd<\/strong> [n\u00f8jd] = content, happy, pleased, satisfied, contented, sated.<\/p>\n – lycklig<\/strong> [l\u028fk\u02d0l\u026a\u0261] = happy, fortunate, lucky, blessed, bright, upbeat, blissful.<\/p>\n This word comes from lycka<\/em> (joy, happiness, luck, fortune, fate), which is related to the English word luck. These words are thought to come from the Middle High German l\u00fccke, gel\u00fccke<\/em>, possibly from the Frankish *galukki<\/em> [source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n – bel\u00e5ten<\/strong> = content, contented, happy, satisfied<\/p>\n Some words for fun include:<\/p>\n – kul<\/strong> [k\u0289\u02d0l] = fun, nice, enjoyable, amusing One ‘useful’ phrase that came up today was tjejer vill bara ha kul<\/em> or girls just want to have fun.<\/p>\n In Norwegian rolig<\/strong> means calm, quiet, peaceful or leisurely, and in Danish it means calm or quiet [source<\/a>]. It comes from the Old Swedish roliker<\/em> (calm, quiet), from Old Norse r\u00f3ligr<\/em>.<\/p>\n Other emotional words include:<\/p>\n – le<\/strong> [le\u02d0] = to smile (related to the English word laugh) Sources: bab.la<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the Swedish lessons I did today was about words for emotions and related words. So I thought I’d find out more about some of them. There are several words for happy in Swedish: – glad [\u0261l\u0251\u02d0d] = delighted, glad, happy, pleased, jolly, lively, bright, bubbly, cheerful, elated, merry, pleasant, sprightly, vivid, gleeful, joyful, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,10,31,36,45,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-norwegian","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– roligt<\/strong> = fun
\n– rolig<\/strong> = fun, amusing, diverting, droll, witty, hilarious<\/p>\n
\n– sm\u00e5le<\/strong> = to smile
\n– skratta<\/strong> = to laugh
\n– entusiastisk<\/strong> = enthusiastic, cheerful
\n– hoppingivande<\/strong> = hopeful
\n– ledsen<\/strong> = sad
\n– olycklig<\/strong> = unhappy
\n– arg<\/strong> = angry
\n– r\u00e4dd<\/strong> = afraid
\n– orolig<\/strong> = worried<\/p>\n