Where does “thinking” come from?

Thinking comes from Middle English thynken, Old English þyncan, and Proto-Germanic þunkijaną, ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root teng-.

thinking (English): Thought; gerund of think; present participle of...

Definitions

  1. Thought; gerund of think; present participle of...

Ancestry of “thinking”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishthinking

Words derived from “thinking

Every word from Middle English thinking