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the ancient forms like sel selig gesaelic etc all over northern Europe just meant happy lucky blessed blissful gay cheerful good kindhearted etc
but the notion of blessed eventually led to pious & then to innocent by 1200
& to harmless pitiable & weak by 1300
& then feebleminded foolish & lacking in reason in the latter 1500s
& finally even dizzy in the late 1800s
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