Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. · That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewk- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *tewkós Proto-Germanic *þeuhą Proto-West Germanic *þeuh Old English þēoh Middle English þigh English thigh From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionthighenm
- Inherited-form mentionþēohang
- Inherited-form mention*þeuhgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*þeuhągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*tewk-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiontsjeafy
- Cognate mentiondijnl
- Cognate mentiondiechgmh
- Cognate mentionþjóis
- Cognate mentiontóinga
- Cognate mentiontáukaslt
- Cognate mentionтукru
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