think
Meanings
- To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- To conceive of something or someone
- To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- To presume; to venture.
- Ellipsis of think so.
- An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
- To seem, to appear.
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Etymology
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Gothic þagkjan (“to think”), Latin tongeō (“know”).