English
thwack
Thwack may come from Middle English twakken.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500twakkenuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1582thwack
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500twakkenuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1582thwack
Earliest quotation: 1582, Virgil, The Third Booke of Virgil His Aeneis: “And my lad Aſcanius with a Troian mantel adorning,…”
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, 30 more
Today it means
verb To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English twakken / thwack