thigh: [OE] The thigh is etymologically the ‘plump’ part of the leg. Together with Dutch dij, it evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *theukham. This went back to Indo-European *teuk-, *tauk-, *tuk-, which also produced Lithuanian táukas ‘fat’. And these in turn were extensions of the base *tu- ‘swell’, source of English thousand, thumb, tumour, etc. => thousand, thumb, tumour
thigh (n.)
Old English þeoh, þeh, from Proto-Germanic *theuham (cognates: Old Frisian thiach, Old Dutch thio, Dutch dij, Old Norse þjo, Old High German dioh), probably literally "the thick or fat part of the leg," from PIE *teuk- from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (cognates: Lithuanian taukas, Old Church Slavonic tuku, Russian tuku "fat of animals;" Lithuanian tukti "to become fat;" Avestan tuma "fat;" Greek tylos "callus, lump," tymbos "burial mound, grave, tomb;" Old Irish ton "rump;" Latin tumere "to swell," tumulus "raised heap of earth," tumidus "swollen;"tumor "a swelling;" Middle Irish tomm "a small hill," Welsh tom "mound").
双语例句
1. The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.
单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。
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2. The pain originated from a point in his right thigh.
疼痛是从他右大腿的某处开始的。
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3. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.
子弹嵌进了中士的腿里，使其股骨碎裂。
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4. He fell back, blood welling from a gash in his thigh.
他向后倒去，鲜血从他大腿上的一个口子里涌了出来。
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5. Hamstrings are supporting muscles at the back of the thigh.
