An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/tunken

by Friedrich Kluge

tunken, verb, ‘to dip, steep, soak,’ from Middle High German tunken, dunken, Old High German tunchôn, dunchôn, weak verb, ‘to immerse.’ The Old High German variant thunkôn leads to a Gothic *þugkôn, which must be allied to Latin tingere, ‘to moisten, dip,’ and to Greek τέγγω, ‘to soften, moisten.’ Hence tunken cannot be connected with tauchen.