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Thank

//θæŋk// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    singular of thanks (“an expression of appreciation or gratitude; grateful feelings or thoughts; favour, goodwill, graciousness”) form-of, obsolete, singular

    "If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same."

Verb
  1. 1
    To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something). transitive

    "She thanked him for the lift."

  2. 2
    express gratitude or show appreciation to wordnet
  3. 3
    In the future tense in the form one will thank someone to do something, chiefly expressing a command or criticism: to request that (someone) do something. transitive

    "I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!"

  4. 4
    To express appreciation or gratitude for (something). rare, transitive
  5. 5
    To respond to (someone) out of, or as if out of, appreciation or gratitude. figuratively, transitive

    "I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do your business, should I?—I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip."

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  1. 6
    Chiefly followed by for: to credit or hold (someone or something) responsible, especially for something negative; to blame. figuratively, transitive

    "We can thank global warming for this freak weather."

  2. 7
    To express gratitude. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English thank (“gratitude; expression of gratitude, thanks; attractiveness; commendation, praise; God’s grace; goodwill; merit, reward; mind, thought”), from Old English þanc (“gratitude; expression of gratitude, thanks; favour, grace; mind, thought; pleasure, satisfaction”), from Proto-Germanic *þankaz (“gratitude; expression of gratitude, thanks; mind, thought; remembrance”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to perceive; to think”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tonk (“thanks”), West Frisian tanke (“thanks”), Cimbrian dånke (“thanks”), Dutch dank (“thanks”), German Dank (“thanks”), Yiddish דאַנק (dank, “thanks”), Danish tak (“thanks”), Elfdalian tokk (“thanks”), Faroese takk, tøkk (“thanks”), Icelandic takk, þökk (“thanks”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk takk (“thanks”), Swedish tack (“thanks”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐍃 (þagks, “thanks”), Vandalic *þank- (“thanks”); also Latin tongeō (“to know”). For the think — thank relation, compare typologically Russian призна́тельный (priznátelʹnyj) (< знать (znatʹ).

Etymology 2

From Middle English thanken, thankien (“to express gratitude, give thanks; to congratulate, rejoice with, or wish joy to; to extol, praise; to hold responsible for”), from Old English þancian, þoncian (“to thank”), from Proto-West Germanic *þankōn, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną (“to thank”), from *þankaz (see etymology 1) + *-ōną (suffix forming infinitives of verbs from nouns). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian tonkje (“to thank”), Cimbrian dånkan (“to thank”), Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish danken (“to thank”), Yiddish דאַנקען (danken, “to thank”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål takke (“to thank”), Faroese takka (“to thank”), Icelandic þakka (“to thank”), Swedish tacka (“to thank”).

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