Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorydamp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.
From Middle English *thon, from Old English þān (“moist, damp, wet; having water, watered, irrigated”), from Proto-West Germanic *þain, from Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt, flow”). Cognate with Scots thane, thain (“moist, damp”). Related to thaw.
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