thin
thin - adjective
- Having little extent from one surface to its opposite
- Measuring little in cross section or diameter
- Not dense in arrangement or distribution
- Not well fleshed : lean
thin - thesaurus
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Etymology
Middle English thin, thinne, going back to Old English þynne, going back to Germanic *þunnu- (assimilated to the -ja-stem adjectives in West Germanic, whence Middle Dutch dunne "thin," Old High German dunni, against Old Norse þunnr), generalized from a paradigm *þenu-, *þunw-a-, going back to Indo-European {it}*ténh{inf}2{/inf}u-, *tn̥h{inf}2{/inf}u̯ó-,{/it} whence also, from with a base {it}*tenh{inf}2{/inf}u-, *tn̥h{inf}2{/inf}u-{/it} with varying ablaut and suffixation, Old Irish tanae "thin, slender," Old Welsh teneu, Middle Breton tanau, Latin tenuis "fine-drawn, thin, narrow, slight," Greek tanu- "extended, long," tanaós "outstretched, long," Old Church Slavic tĭnŭkŭ "fine, delicate," Russian tónkij "thin," Croatian & Serbian tȁnak, Lithuanian tę́vas, Sanskrit tanúḥ, tánukaḥ "thin, small"
Found in Lyrics
"Think"
by Aretha Franklin
1968"Think! Think!"
Context: Soul anthem