thank
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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 Scots thank (“to thank”), Saterland Frisian tonkje (“to thank”), Cimbrian dånkan (“to thank”), Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish danken (“to thank”), Vilamovian danka, daŋka, daonka (“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”).
Inflected forms:
form: thanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thanked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thanke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She thanked him for the lift.
[H]aſt thou no ſhame to deſpiſe that perſone, to whom onely and no man els, thou art bounde to thanke, euen for this veraie pointe, that thou ſetteſt ſo moche by thy peinted ſheathe?
I can eate no meate, I thanke you.
The naked Negro, panting at the line, / Baſks in the glare, or ſtems the tepid vvave, / And thanks his Gods for all the good they gave.
[S]ae laigh I need na bovv, / For, Lord be thankit, I can plough; / And vvhen I dovvna yoke a naig, / Then, Lord be thankit, I can beg; […]
That his Majesty has good subjects in England, my Lord Duke, he is bound to thank God and the laws—that he has subjects in Scotland, I think he may thank God and the sword.
She had at once the air of good fellowship and the dignity of a woman, and she seemed to understand Farrar and me perfectly. […] By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness, […]
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
We were able to transport goods and critical workers all the way through the pandemic, and at the time we had the Prime Minister thanking everyone for what was achieved.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!
Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.
gloss: To express appreciation or gratitude for (something).
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: To respond to (someone) out of, or as if out of, appreciation or gratitude.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Chiefly followed by for: to credit or hold (someone or something) responsible, especially for something negative; to blame.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: We can thank global warming for this freak weather.
gloss: To express gratitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Derived words: thankful
thankworthy
bethank
misthank
no thank you
outthank
rethank
thankability
thankable
thanker
thank fuck
thank god
thank God
thank Goddess
thank Goddesses
thank goddesses
thank God it's Friday
thank gods
thank goodness
thank heavens
thanking
thank one's lucky stars
thank one's stars
thank science
thanksome
thank the Goddesses
thank the goddesses
thank the gods
thank u
thank ya
thank ye
thank ye so very much
thank-you
thank you
thank you all
thank you card
thank-you-ma'am
thank you very much
unthank
unthanked
unthanking
wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am
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