thack
/θæk/ · verb
Meaning
- To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.
- A stroke; a thwack.
- The sound of a thack.
- The weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often specifically thatch.
- To cover a roof with thack.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakwōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”). Cognate with Old Dutch þakolōn (“to stroke”), Old Norse þykkr (“a thwack, thump, blow”), Icelandic þjökka, þjaka (“to thwack, thump, beat”), Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”), Latin tangō (“touch”). More at thwack, tangent.
- tangō(la)→
- tjåka(no)→
- þjökka(is)→
- þykkr(Old Norse)→
- þakolōn(odt)→
- *teh₂g-(ine-pro)→
- *þakwōną(gem-pro)→
- *þakwōn(gmw-pro)→
- þaccian(Old English)→
- thakken(Middle English)→
- *teh₂g-(ine-pro)→
- thack (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- dach(Cimbrian) (cog)
- tach(Cimbrian) (cog)
- tag(Danish) (cog)
- Dach(German) (cog)
- Daach(Luxembourgish) (cog)
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