Etymograph

English

thack

Thack comes from Middle English thakken ‘to stroke’, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną ‘to touch lightly’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to touch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þakwōną‘to touch lightly’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þakwōnreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þaccian‘to touch gently, stroke, tap’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thakken‘to stroke’
  6. Englishtodaythack

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to touch’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þakwōną‘to touch lightly’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þakwōnreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þaccian‘to touch gently, stroke, tap’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thakken‘to stroke’
  6. Englishtodaythack

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’

contact, taste, integrity, integrate, contingent, tangible, attain, tame, taxis, tangent, contiguous, taxonomy, contagion, talon, tactile, contaminate, tama, tact, ataxia, talus, 29 more

through Middle English thakken ‘to stroke’

thwack

Another origin of thack

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*th₂gnéh₂tiuncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to touch’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þakwōną‘to touch, pat, tap’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þakkōnreconstructed
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150þaccian‘to touch softly, stroke’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thakken‘to stroke’
  7. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500thacce
  8. Englishtodaythack

Another origin of thack

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teg-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þaką‘roof, cover’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þak‘roof, cover’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þæc‘roof’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thak
  6. Englishtodaythack

Today it means

verb To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- / thack

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