think
Scots
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to think, to conceive, to have in mind
- (transitive) to believe, to hold as an opinion, to judge; to feel, to have as an emotion
- (transitive) to ponder, to meditate, to consider, to reflect on
- (transitive) to have scruples, to doubt, to reconsider
- to devise, to work out, to contrive
- (archaic) to be ashamed
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English thynken inherited from Old English þencan.
Origin
Old English
þencan
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afterthink English
- badthink English
- bethink English
- crimethink English
- doublethink English
- forethink English
- forthink English
- goodthink English
- groupthink English
- herdthink English
- interthink English
- misthink English
- outthink English
- overthink English
- rethink English
- think English
- think meat English
- thinkable English
- thinker English
- thinkest English
- thinketh English
- thinking English
- thinko English
- thinksome English
- thinky English
- umbethink English
- underthink English
- unthink English
- unthinkable English
- whaddayathink English
- wrongthink English
- *þankijaną Proto-Germanic
- þencan Old English
- thinken Middle English
- thynken Middle English
- tik Volapük
- tikön Volapük
- ting Tok Pisin
- tingting Tok Pisin
- tink Nigerian Pidgin