Mildhearted

     If one was to research the etymology of Mercy (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=mercy) they would find it comes from the latin mercedem via the french mercit/merci. Merci has become a word of thanks in French having been superceded by misericorde.

    What the etymology does not mention is the English word it replaced. For those who like to keep the Lingua Franca to a modest minimum then mercy can be relaced with mildhearted. This word comes from the Anglo-Saxon mildheort (merciful) and mildheortnes (mercy, pity). In Middle English this became Mildheartedness or Mildheartness.

   Notes:

* The Anglo-Saxon plural was mildheorta (mercies).

* Pity may have also been rendered as mildheortnisse