köken: From the noun Dank, as in phrases like "Dank sei dir", with the copula dropping away and a semantic broadening to cover causal senses. Compare English thanks to.
köken: From Middle French merci, mercy, from Old French merci, from Latin mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”). Used as an interjection of gratitude since at least the early 12th century, originally as grand merci, for instance spelled granz merciz in Li coronemenz Looïs.
aile: Dieu merci, merci beaucoup, merci bien, merci mille fois, merci pour ton aide, merci pour votre aide, non merci
köken: Borrowed from Latin grātus (whence also grado, an inherited doublet), from Proto-Italic *grātos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós, derived from the root *gʷerH- (“to praise; to elevate”).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai رحمت (rähmät), from Arabic رَحْمَةٌ (raḥmatun). Cognate with Uzbek rahmat. Compare also Kazakh рақмет (raqmet), Tatar рәхмәт (räxmät), Ottoman Turkish رحمت (rahmet), Turkish rahmet, etc.
köken: Phonetic shift: /ariɡataku/ → /ariɡatau/ → /ariɡatoː/. From ありがたく (arigataku), the adverbial form of Old Japanese and Classical Japanese adjective ありがたし (arigatashi, modern ありがたい arigatai, “grateful, thankful; welcome”), from 有り (ari, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 有る aru, “to exist, to be”) + 難し (katashi, “hard, difficult”, 難い katai in modern Japanese). The katashi…
köken: From Old Swedish þak, from Runic Swedish þakk, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz. Cognates include English thank, German Dank, Danish tak and Norwegian Nynorsk takk/Norwegian Bokmål takk.
aile: ja tack, nej tack, tack för mig, tack så mycket, tack vare, tacksam
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tóng-o-s Proto-Germanic *þankaz Old High German danc Middle High German dancbor. Old Polish dzięka Polish dzięka Proto-Indo-European *-isder. Proto-Indo-European *-ósder. Proto-Slavic *-ьjь Old Polish -i Polish -i German danksl. French grâce àsl. English thanks tosl. Polish dzięki From dzięka + -i, which was also displaced by this term. Compare Czech díky.…
First attested in the Beonyeok sohak (飜譯小學 / 번역소학), 1517, as Middle Korean 고〯맙다〮, attested only in conjugated forms. The word is almost certainly a contraction of *고〯마〮ᄒᆞᆸ다〮 (*kwǒmáhòptá), the regularly derived —브 (-beu) adjective from the verb 고〯마〮ᄒᆞ다〮 (Yale: kwŏmáhòtá, “to respect; to admire”). In Middle Korean, 고〯맙다〮 (kwǒmàptá) had the meaning of "to be worth respecting; to be worth admiring",…