Etymology

gemütlich

Today it means: Comfortable, cosy, pleasant. Full definition →

German gemütlich ← Middle High German gemüetlich
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle High German · derived fromgemüetlich
  2. German · borrowed fromgemütlich
  3. English todaygemütlich

Unadapted borrowing from German gemütlich, from Middle High German gemüetlich, from gemüet (“mind, mentality”) + -lich (“-ly”), equivalent to Gemüt (“mind, soul”) + -lich (“-ly”). More at mood, -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.