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the luck you get before you earn the word happiness.
means Hap is an old word for chance or fortune — whatever luck, good or bad, simply happens to fall your way.
from From Old Norse 'happ' meaning luck or chance, borrowed into Middle English around the 1200s. It became a small factory of words: happy originally meant lucky, happen meant 'to occur by chance,' and haphazard, hapless, and perhaps (meaning 'by hap,' or by chance) all grew from the same root.
- origin
- old norse for luck or chance
- root word
- happy literally means full of hap
- related
- also gives us happen and perhaps
- irony
- mishap is just hap gone wrong