Etymograph

English

thone

Thone comes from Old English þān ‘moist, damp, wet’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- ‘to melt, flow’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂-1‘to melt, flow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þainaz1‘moist’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þain1reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þān1‘moist, damp, wet’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*thon1reconstructed
  6. Englishtodaythone1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English thone

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂-Wiktionary, English thone‘to melt, flow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þainazWiktionary, English thone‘moist’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þainWiktionary, English thonereconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þānWiktionary, English thone‘moist, damp, wet’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*thonWiktionary, English thonereconstructed
  6. EnglishtodaythoneWiktionary, English thone

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- ‘to melt, flow’

thaw, tench, 4 more

Today it means

adj damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “thone”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- / thone

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