thakken

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English þaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną.

Verb

thakken

1. To strike, to hit
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xliiii, recto, column 2:

     This carter thacked his horſe on yͤ croupe / And they begon to drawe and to ſtoupe

     This carter thwacked is horse on the croup / And they began to draw and to stoop

Conjugation

Conjugation of thakken (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) thakken, thakke
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	thakke	thakked
2nd-person singular	thakkest	thakkedest
3rd-person singular	thakketh	thakked
subjunctive singular	thakke
imperative singular		—
plural1	thakken, thakke	thakkeden, thakkede
imperative plural	thakketh, thakke	—
participles	thakkynge, thakkende	thakked, ythakked

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.