þakka

From Old Norse þakka, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną. Cognates include Faroese takka, Danish and Norwegian takke, Swedish tacka, English thank, Dutch danken and German danken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθahka/

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  Rhymes: -ahka

þakka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þakkaði, supine þakkað)

1. to thank

• flytja þökk (“bring thanks”)
• færa þökk (“bring thanks”)
• gjalda þökk (“pay thanks”)
• tjá þökk (“express thanks”)

• þakka þér (singular) (literally “(I) thank you”)
  • þakka þér fyrir (singular) (literally “thank you for ...”)
  • þakka ykkur fyrir (plural) (literally “thank you for ...”)
• þakka yður (singular, formal; rare) (literally “(I) thank you ...”)
  • þakka yður fyrir (singular and plural, formal; rare) (literally “thank you for ...”)

• þökk (“a thank, thanks”)

From Proto-Germanic *þankōną, akin to Old English þancian, Old Saxon thankon, Old High German dankōn.

þakka (singular past indicative þakkaði, plural past indicative þǫkkuðu, past participle þakkaðr)

1. to thank, to show gratitude

   Konan þakkaði honum vel gjǫfina.

   She thanked him well for the gift.

• Unlike in English, where the direct object of the verb "to thank" is the person being thanked and the indirect object is the thing being thanked for, in Old Norse, the thing being thanked for is the accusative object and the person being thanked is marked with the dative, as seen in the example above from page 70 of A New Introduction to Old Norse by Michael Barnes.

• þǫkk

• Icelandic: þakka
• Faroese: takka
• Norwegian Nynorsk: takka
• Norwegian Bokmål: takke
• Old Swedish: þakka
  • Swedish: tacka
• Danish: takke
• → Inari Sami: takkâ

From Old Norse þakka, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną.

þakka

1. to thank
2. to praise
3. to reward

• Swedish: tacka