Joy

Joy comes from the English word, which reached English from Old French joie, itself from the Latin gaudium, meaning delight or gladness. It appears as a medieval given name and was revived in the nineteenth century alongside virtue names such as Hope and Faith. Joy Adamson, a naturalist in Kenya, wrote Born Free, the account of raising the lioness Elsa and returning her to the wild. Joy Davidman, an American poet, married C. S. Lewis, a story told in the play and film Shadowlands. In Pixar’s film Inside Out, Joy is the leading emotion inside a girl’s mind.