THANKS

Could the presence of "on" in Old English "þonc" suggest that the Old Norse "ǫ" in "þǫkk" is an indicator of a nasal vowel read as "þonkk"?

In all other forms of this word there is "an" present in exactly the same place and even a proper nasal "en" sound in Polish "dziękować".

THANK

Old English: þanc

Middle English: thank

Scots: thank

English: thank, thanks

Old Frisian: thank

West Frisian: tanck, tank

Old Saxon: thanc, thank

Old Dutch: thank

DANK-

Middle Low German: dank, danke

Low German: Dank

Middle Dutch: danc

Dutch: dank

Afrikaans: dankie

Old High German: danc

Middle High German: danc

German: Dank

DHAN-

Hindi: धन्यवाद देना (dhanyavād denā)

Bhojpuri: धन्यवाद (dhanyavad)

DENK-

Polish: dziękować

DEK-

Czech: děkovat

Lithuanian: dėkoju, dėkui

TAK-

Norwegian: takk

Old Swedish: þak

Swedish: tack

Danish: tak

Faroese: takk

Icelandic: takk

Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐍃 (þagks)

DAK-

Slovak: ďakovať

Belarusian: дзя́каваць (dzjákavacʹ)

Ukrainian: дя́кувати (djákuvaty)

Rusyn: дя́кую (djákuju)

TONK-

Old English: þonc

Middle English: thonk

Old Frisian: thonk

Saterland Frisian: Tonk

TOK-

Old Norse: þǫkk

Icelandic: þökk

Faroese: tøkk

Elfdalian: tokk

DHON-

Bengali: ধন্যবাদ (dhônnôbad)

DIOL-

Welsh: diolch

Article created on the 9th of October 2019.