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: 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: An alternative form of skuld (“debt”), from Old Norse skuld, from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéltis. Compare gälla and gälda. Used to indicate for whom or why something is done.
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.…