Meanings
verb
alternative think'st · alternative thinkst
- archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of think
"How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror."
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*teng-
- Proto-Germanic*þankijaną
- Proto-West Germanic*þankijan
- Old Englishþenċan
- Middle Englishthinken
- Englishthink
- Englishthinkest
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APA
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Chicago
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