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тонкий

adjective, nominative singular masculine

1. thin
2. fine, delicate
3. subtle, refined

Built from

• тонк — root · thin, fine
  The root suggesting something drawn out or compressed; the image of fineness and delicacy.
• ий — ending · nominative singular masculine
  Standard adjectival ending marking gender and case in the hard-stem paradigm.

Etymology. From Proto-Slavic *tъnkъ, cognate with Old Church Slavonic тънък and Lithuanian tankùs 'dense' (opposite sense suggests the root meant 'drawn tight' or 'compressed'). Related to English 'thin' and German 'dünn' through Indo-European *ten- 'to stretch, thin out'.

Dictionary entry by Claude.

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