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thought

/θɔt/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
  2. The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
  3. A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
  4. Anxiety, distress.
  5. The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
  6. A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
  7. simple past and past participle of think

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think.

  1. þóttur(is)→
  2. Andacht(German)→
  3. gedachte(Dutch)→
  4. oandacht(fy)→
  5. Toacht(Saterland Frisian)→
  6. thocht(Scots)→
  7. *teng-(ine-pro)→
  8. *þanhtaz(gem-pro)→
  9. *þą̄ht(gmw-pro)→
  10. þōht(ang)→
  11. thought(Middle English)→
  12. *teng-(ine-pro)→
  13. thought (English)
  14. Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog

Related words

*teng-(ine-pro)thought(Middle English)þōht(ang)*þą̄ht(gmw-pro)*þanhtaz(gem-pro)thocht(Scots)Toacht(Saterland Frisian)oandacht(fy)gedachte(Dutch)Andacht(German)þóttur(is)

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