It stopped meaning happy around the year 1970. Between 1960 and 1970, it had both meanings (gay and happy).
Prior to 1960, it's main meaning was "happy."
Up until about 1960, the main meaning of gay was "lightly happy."
At one time, the primary meaning for the word gay was "happy," but today, this is considered a dated meaning, only surviving in some phrases, like "the gay nineties" and "gay apparel."
Depends on which meaning of the word yoou are refering to. For the happy definition, sad. For the homosexual meaning, hetroseual or straight.
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There is no Latin word "gay". The English word "gay" is "hilaris" in Latin, although this is likely to refer to the old-fashioned meaning of "gay" as happy, as opposed to homosexual.
The original meaning of gay is happy. so it probably means that you are happy funny.
youre happy.
Yes, but it's only a form of the obsolete meaning for "gay" which was "happy." This word was virtually extinct by the 1970s, and today it doesn't have this meaning at all.
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In the original meaning of 'gay', yes they are cheerful and happy.
Yes, it is called homosexuality meaning you like the person of the same sex. GIRL-GIRL, GUY-GUY. The word gay used to mean happy.
The girl at recess was having a happy/gay day, she was very gay/happy