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noun an acknowledgment of appreciation
noun with the help of or owing to
verb express gratitude or show appreciation to
originFrom Middle English thanks, thankes, from Old English þancas (“thanks”), from Proto-Germanic *þankōs, nominative plural of *þankaz (“thought, gratitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel”). More at thank.
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