Re: [tied] Danke - denken - dzienkuje - any connection?

On 2006-04-10 14:12, Håkan Lindgren wrote:

> The words "thank" and "think" (in German "danken", "denken") are similar in many Germanic languages. Are they related?
>
> Also, is there any connection between "danken" and the similar words in some Slavic languages, such as
>
> dzienkuje (Polish)
> djakuju (Ukrainian)
> djekuji (Czech)

Pol. dzie,k and Old Czech de^k (hence the verbs) are loans from German
into West Slavic. Ukrainian has the verb from Polish.

Piotr