þanki
See also: yanki
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German danke, probably via Danish tanke, with the initial consonant of the related verb Icelandic þenkja (“think”), Danish tænke. Ultimately related to Old Saxon thenkian. The noun is attested in Icelandic sources since the 16th century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
þanki m (genitive singular þanka, nominative plural þankar)
Declension edit
declension of þanki
Synonyms edit
- (thought): hugsun
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- fljúga ekki í þanka (to not come to mind)
- fljúga í þanka (to come to mind)
- vera í þungum þönkum (to be in deep thought, to be lost in one's thoughts)
- þankagangur (a way of thinking, a mentality)
- þankastrik (an em dash, “—”)