tanke

• IPA^(key): /tankə/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ə]

From Old Danish tanckæ, borrowed from Middle Low German danke (with the initial consonant of the related verb Danish tænke (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), and Icelandic þanki.

tanke c (singular definite tanken, plural indefinite tanker)

1. thought
2. idea
3. intension

• tanks

tanke c

1. indefinite plural of tank

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1. tank up, fill up
2. refuel

tanke

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of tanken

• akten, kante, taken

• danke

From Old High German dankōn, from Proto-Germanic *þankōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋ.kə/

tanke

1. to thank
   • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:

     awer, ap xeele, tanke, knaps – mas, descascar, agradecer, rarefeito.

     but, to peel, to thank, scarce – but, to peel, to thank, scarce
     (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

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From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tanker, definite plural tankene)

1. thought
2. intent
3. idea
4. an imaginary small unit of something; a tad

• tenke (verb)

From the noun tank.

tanke (present tense tanker, past tense tanka or tanket, past participle tanka or tanket)

1. to tank, tank up, fill up, (put fuel into a tank)

• “tanke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• anket, kante, katen, nekta, akten

• IPA^(key): /²tɑnçə/, /²tɑŋkə/

From Middle Low German danke, and Old Norse þanki.

tanke m (definite singular tanken, indefinite plural tankar, definite plural tankane)

1. thought
2. intent
3. idea

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1. Alternative form of tanka

• “tanke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tanke

1. inflection of tankar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tanke

1. inflection of tanak:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Borrowed from English tank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanke/
• Hyphenation: tan‧ke

tanke f 

1. tank (armoured vehicle)

• Ruth Kramer; Anbessa Teferra (2020), “Gender switch in Sidaama”, in Brill's journal of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics, volume 12, page 305

From Old Swedish þanke, borrowed from Middle Low German danke, with the initial consonant of the related verb Swedish tänka (“think”). The Middle Low German word has also been borrowed to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), and Icelandic þanki.

• IPA^(key): /²taŋːkɛ/, [²t̪ʰäŋːkɛ̠]

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tanke c

1. thought

• tanke in Svensk ordbok.
• tanke in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• akten, naket, nekat, taken

Ultimately from a form of Proto-Germanic *þankaz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋkə/

tanke

1. thanks, thank you

   Synonym: tankewol

• “tanke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011