Etymology

enjoy

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Today it means: To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something. Full definition →

Middle English enjoyen ← Old French enjoier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromenjoier
  2. Middle English · inherited fromenjoyen
  3. English todayenjoy

From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.