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...
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- Thought; gerund of think; present participle of...
Ancestry of “thinking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | thinking | — |
Words derived from “thinking”