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Related to Lithuanianlinkėti(“wish”), which derives from the same root as Lithuanianlinkti(“bow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*lenk-(“bend”). Perhaps bowing was a way of expressing one's best wishes, and from that point the evolution of meanings was 'wished' → 'acceptable' → 'pleasant' → 'joyful'.
↑ 1.01.1“linksmas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
^ Jurij S. Stepanov (1992 January 31) “Lexical entries in major sentence types of Proto-Indo-European”, in Reconstructing Languages and Cultures, →DOI, page 181: “e.g. linké̇ti, linki, 'Somebody bows, expressing his best wishes'”
