From Old French jocond, from .

• (British) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɒkənd/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊkənd/
• (US) enPR: jäkʹənd, jōʹkənd, IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɑkənd/, /ˈd͡ʒoʊkənd/

jocund

1. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene v] ↗:

     Nights candles are burnt out, and iocond Day / Stands tiptoes on the myſtie mountaine tops.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], page 12 ↗, column 2:

     Thou mak'ſt me merry: I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare?

   • 1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., “Which Treates of the Strange Aduentures that Hapned to the Knight of the Mancha, in Sierra Morena: And of the Penance He Did there, in Imitation of Belti Nebros”, in The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC ↗, part 3, page 243 ↗:

     There was once a widdow faire, young, free, rich, and withall very pleaſant and iocund, that fell in loue with a certaine round and well-ſet ſeruant of a Colledge: […]

• French: enjoué, gai, jovial
• German: heiter
• Italian: giocondo
• Portuguese: jocundo
• Russian: весёлый
• Spanish: jocundo