[Lexicog] haply go luckily

[David Tuggy]

No, that would be haplogy.

In case you were seriously asking (not that I would suspect it of you) 
it's an obsolete word meaning more or less the same as "mayhap" or 
"per-haps" or "perchance".

--David T

Fritz Goerling wrote:

> Compare also  words like "hapless "and "mishap".
> David, is "haply" a haplology that happened to "happily" or even to 
> "haplology?"
>  
> Fritz 
>
> Probably (or, at least, mayhap) you are right etymologically that the
> "happy" of "happy-go-lucky" owes more to the hap of happen than to that
> of happy as we now know the word. Hap was much like "luck", as I read it
> in old stuff (though I'm no expert), so "happy" probably is parallel in
> formation to "lucky". I.e. one whose happenstances are positive *is*
> "happy" (and therefore, secondarily, might be expected to *feel*
> "happy"). I would expect, however, that most present day speakers would
> have operative a folk-etymology like mine, where the present-day,
> emotional "happy" is  more active. In any case, it is clear that
> "happy-go-lucky" now designates an attitude of taking things positively
> rather than a situation in which things are, objectively considered,
> positive.
>
> --David T
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