thigh
English
/θaɪ/
noun
Definitions
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English thigh inherited from Old English þēoh (thigh) inherited from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą (thigh) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (sprout, germ, seed, offspring).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tewk-
Gloss
sprout, germ, seed, offspring
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bone English
- master English
- midthigh English
- thigh master English
- thighbone English
- thighed English
- thighing English
- thighless English
- thighward English
- under English
- underthigh English
- Dickbein German
- Diech German
- dij Dutch, Flemish
- dijbeen Dutch, Flemish
- dijenkletser Dutch, Flemish
- dijkramp Dutch, Flemish
- тук Russian
- тучный Russian
- *tewk- Proto-Indo-European
- *þeuhą Proto-Germanic
- þeoh Old English
- þēoh Old English
- thigh Middle English
- þigh Middle English
- atóin Irish
- tóin Irish
- þjó Old Norse
- تخم Persian
- die Middle Dutch
- dioh Old High German
- tón Old Irish
- dy Afrikaans
- diech Middle High German
- tirk Albanian
- *𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌺𐍃 Gothic
- *thio Old Dutch
- thio Old Dutch
- *tuknā Proto-Celtic
- thioh Old Saxon
- thee Scots
- taukai Lithuanian
- тукъ Old East Slavic
- *touʔkós Proto-Balto-Slavic