different between ankle vs thigh

English

Alternative forms

• ancle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ankel, ancle, ankyll, from Old English *ancol (compare ancl?ow (“ankle”) > Modern English anclef, ancliff, ancley), from Proto-Germanic *ankulaz (“ankle, hip”); akin to Icelandic ökkla, ökli, Danish and Swedish ankel, Dutch enklaauw, enkel, German Enkel, Old Norse akka, Old Frisian anckel, and perhaps Old High German encha, ancha (“thigh”, “shin”), from the Proto-Germanic *ankij? (“ankle”, “hip”).

Compare with Sanskrit ???? (a?ga, “limb”), ??????? (a?guri, “finger”), Latin angulus. Compare haunch and Greek prefix ??????- (ankulo-, “joint, crooked, bent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?.k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

ankle (plural ankles)

1. The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• spat
• wrist

Translations

Verb

ankle (third-person singular simple present ankles, present participle ankling, simple past and past participle ankled)

1. (US, slang) To walk.
   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 275:

     After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.

2. (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

English

Etymology

From Middle English thigh, thegh, thi?, the?he, þigh, þy?h, from Old English þ?oh, þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh? (compare West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó), from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (compare Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian ??? (tuk, “animal fat”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

thigh (plural thighs)

1. The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:

     I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs.

   • 1800, Jane Austen, letter, 8 Nov 1800:

     About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh.

   • 1991, Kathy Lette, The Llama Parlour:

     ‘Why not pay up now, kiddo?’ he suggested magnanimously, patting me on the thigh.

   • 2011, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2011:

     The 23-year-old was substituted in the 75th minute of France's goalless friendly draw with Croatia on Tuesday after suffering an injury to his thigh.

2. 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.]
   • 2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas:

     Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.

   • 2011, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 23 Feb 2011:

     The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hight, hight

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /h??/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /hi?/

Noun

thigh

1. Lenited form of tigh.

Middle English

Noun

thigh (plural thighes)

1. Alternative spelling of þigh (“thigh”)