þeoh

From Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. Cognate with Old Frisian thiāch, Old Saxon thio, Dutch dij, Old High German dioh, Old Norse þjó; and more distantly with Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”), Lithuanian tukti (“become fat”).

• IPA^(key): /θeːox/

þēoh n

1. thigh
   • 10th century, Ælfric, translation of Genesis 24:2

     And Abrāhām cwæþ tō his þēowe, "Sete þīne hand under mīn þēoh."

     And Abraham said to his servant, "Put your hand under my thigh."

• Middle English: thighe, thehe
  • English: thigh
  • Scots: thee