Etymograph

English

hyperthick

From hyper- + thick.

Formed from hyper- + thick

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- ‘to cover’

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Proto-Germanic *þekuz ‘thick’

Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī ‘thick’

Old English þicce ‘thick’

Middle English thikke ‘thick’

English thick

Today it means

adj Very much more than usually thick

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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