Dictionary phrase *gher- (1) gern(e) gern geschehen

gern geschehen

(phrase)

Meanings

1.
my pleasure
(As a reply to "Thank you.". Sounds a bit high register. Literally "Happened with pleasure.")
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Word Family

The core idea of this root was:

wanting, liking

And this is still visible in the offspring  yearn, greed and charisma, though from kind of different angles.
There’s a second Indo-European *gher- but that one is unrelated and its core idea is grasping.

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