thigh

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English thigh, thegh, thiȝ, theȝhe, þigh, þyȝh, from Old English þēoh, þīoh, from Proto-West Germanic *þeuh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. See also West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó; also Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θaɪ/ Rhymes: -aɪ === Noun === thigh (plural thighs) The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.] That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. [from 14th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Hight, hight == Irish == === Pronunciation === (Munster) IPA(key): /hɪɟ/ (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /hiː/ === Noun === thigh lenited form of tigh == Middle English == === Noun === thigh (plural thighes) alternative spelling of þigh (“thigh”)