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Yiddish
Etymology
Probably from a conflation of Middle High Germandāhte and dūhte, past tenses of denken (“to think”, whence דענקען(denken)) and dünken(“to seem, appear”) respectively. From the latter verb early modern German likewise formed a new infinitive deuchten. The sense “to mention” seems to be exclusively Yiddish, but compare German meinen(“to reckon, think”), which has developed the same sense. For the two Middle High German verbs compare Englishthink (etymologies 1 and 2).
אים דאַכט זיך, אַז ער קוקט אַראָפּ אויפן אָפּגרונט פון ים, וואו עס געפינען זיך פאַרשיידענע מינים פיש וואָס לויכט, משונהדיקע באַשעפענישן מיט אַ סך אויגן.
im dakht zikh, az er kukt arop oyfn opgrunt fun yam, vu es gefinen zikh farsheydene minem fish vos loykht, meshunedike bashefenishn mit a sakh oygn.
It seemed to him that he looked down upon an abyss in the sea, where there can be found many kinds of fish which glow—strange creatures with many eyes.
Usage notes
"It seems to…" may be translated with a pronoun in the dative case, or with צו(tsu) for nouns.