263: delight Aug 28, 2015

The sun or a candle may be delightful, but the 'light' in 'delight' has nothing to do with that. The word comes from Old French 'delitier' as a verb, and 'delit' as a noun. That word comes from the Latin word, 'delectare' which means ‘to charm’. The '-gh-' was added in the 16th century.