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Thank vs Thane - What's the difference?

thank | thane |

As nouns the difference between thank and thane

is that thank is (obsolete) an expression of appreciation; a thought while thane is cranberry shrub.

As a verb thank

is to express gratitude or appreciation to someone.

thank

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Compare Dutch dank, German Dank.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An expression of appreciation; a thought.
  • * Bible, Luke vi. 33
    • If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
  • * Milton
    • What great thank , then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin?

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare Dutch and German danken.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express gratitude or appreciation to someone.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 23
    • The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness; and Dorothy exclaimed:
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
  • Credit or hold something responsible.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
    Related terms
    * thanks * thank you English transitive verbs ----

    thane

    English

    (Thegn)

    Alternative forms

    * thegn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron." thane]", entry in 1852', ''Putnam's Home Cyclopedia: Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts'', p594 — The '''thanes''' in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's '''thanes''', who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary '''thanes , who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits.After the [Norman Conquest, this title was disused, and ''baron took its place.
  • * 1845 , (translator), A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings , 2004, page 317,
    • The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
    The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
  • * 1910 , Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England , Walter Scott Publishing, New York,
    • The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
  • * 2000 , '', ''Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings , page 144,
    • Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane' and serf, if the serf utterly kills the ' thane , he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.

    See also

    * baron * gesith

    Anagrams

    * *

    References