thing

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The word originally meant "assembly", then came to mean a specific issue discussed at such an assembly, and ultimately came to mean most broadly "an object". Compare, also meaning "legal matter", and same transition from to "thing" in Romance languages. Modern use to refer to a Germanic assembly is likely influenced by cognates (from the same Proto-Germanic root) like 🇨🇬,, , and 🇨🇬 with this meaning.

Noun

 * 1) That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
 * 2) A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
 * 3) An individual object or distinct entity.
 * 4) Whatever can be owned.
 * 5) Corporeal object.
 * 6)  Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
 * 7)  The latest fad or fashion.
 * 8) * 1802, Anne Ormsby, "Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland", quoted in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal page 45:
 * To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion.
 * 1)  A custom or practice.
 * 2)   A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
 * 3)  A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
 * 4)  A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor; the crux.
 * 5)  The central point; the crux.
 * 6)  A penis.
 * 7) A living being or creature.
 * 8) * 1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man [playscript]:
 * Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing.
 * 1)  That which is favoured; personal preference.
 * 2) * 2002, et al, "Never Leave Me",  (TV episode):
 * 3) * 2006,, interview with  magazine:
 * 4)  One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
 * 5) * 2006,, Catching the Big Fish, Tarcher 2006, "Darkness", p. 91:
 * But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.
 * 1)  A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
 * 2) * 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
 * The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
 * 1)  A romantic relationship.
 * 2)  A romantic couple.
 * 3)  Alternative form of ting.
 * 4)  Girl; attractive woman.
 * 1)  A penis.
 * 2) A living being or creature.
 * 3) * 1914, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, The Movie Man [playscript]:
 * Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing.
 * 1)  That which is favoured; personal preference.
 * 2) * 2002, et al, "Never Leave Me",  (TV episode):
 * 3) * 2006,, interview with  magazine:
 * 4)  One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
 * 5) * 2006,, Catching the Big Fish, Tarcher 2006, "Darkness", p. 91:
 * But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.
 * 1)  A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
 * 2) * 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
 * The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
 * 1)  A romantic relationship.
 * 2)  A romantic couple.
 * 3)  Alternative form of ting.
 * 4)  Girl; attractive woman.
 * 1)  One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
 * 2) * 2006,, Catching the Big Fish, Tarcher 2006, "Darkness", p. 91:
 * But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.
 * 1)  A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
 * 2) * 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
 * The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
 * 1)  A romantic relationship.
 * 2)  A romantic couple.
 * 3)  Alternative form of ting.
 * 4)  Girl; attractive woman.
 * 1)  A romantic relationship.
 * 2)  A romantic couple.
 * 3)  Alternative form of ting.
 * 4)  Girl; attractive woman.
 * 1)  Alternative form of ting.
 * 2)  Girl; attractive woman.

Synonyms

 * , (uncountable equivalent),  (Ireland)
 * see Thesaurus:penis
 * see Thesaurus:predilection

Related terms

 * diminutives: thingy / thingie, thingo [Aus]

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Verb

 * 1)  To express as a thing; to reify.

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) firewood

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) thing

Etymology
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tree
 * 2) wood
 * 3) firewood

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) thing, object
 * 2) case, matter, issue

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * , object
 * 1) matter, case