EDIT: I missed the context that Neo was asking about a larger sentence, leaving the comment though as the link between いただく and いただきます is interesting if you haven’t noticed it anyway.
No, it’s nothing to do with 感謝する。頂く is a verb meaning to recieve. You’ve actually almost certainly, run into it already, it’s the origin of いただきます。
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I can’t really tell you much more about it (as we’ve already established, I suck at keigo), but it’s really common to see those nominalised verb stems in keigo. It reminds me of how we start nominalising/using more nouns in German, too, the more formal a communication gets.
Wait, this means the ます stem of a verb can also be used as a nominalization of a verb?
Ok let me google again
…not a nominalisation apparently, because it’s only used in this context and cannot be used as a regular noun. But it feels like nominalisation haha
@NeoArcturus paging bc edited
Btw did you know that
Although less common, it’s possible to also use honorific forms for adjectives. The pattern is determined by the vowel that precedes the い ending.
For adjectives with a or o vowels:
- はやい ー＞ おはようございます
this is where おはよう comes from??
Ok that breaks my brain a bit lol
So it’s kinda nominalization in this context, but then, it’s not actual nominalization in general?
I know what you mean, it feels like nominalization to me as well haha
Wow that is so cool!
Jumping in without having read the other posts, so I might be wrong because of lack of context, but: Yes.
Quoting a post from very-far-in-the-past-me for some examples:
Yeah, I’ve noticed this as well, but I wasn’t sure if it is a general rule.
We were talking about お持ちいただき(感謝する), does it work there too?
I’m not sure what you mean with the parentheses 
What you’re trying to do there seems to me like using the masu-stem as an alternative to the て-form, which is a thing. For example:
この本をお手に取っていただき、ありがとうございます。
I put the paranthesis because the masu stem I was talking about it the お持ちいただき 
Here is the original sentence:
客人方、ディドゥーのニンジンワインをお持ちいただき感謝する。
My thought was that お持ちいただき is a nominalized stucture that is being “acted” upon by 感謝する, but wouldn’t it require a を then? Or is there some sort of exception for humble speech?
Welp, I scrolled up for the context 
Real quick regarding the 方 usage as a suffix:
─がた［（方）］（接尾）
①ふたり以上の人を尊敬して言うことば。たち。
「あなた━・先生━」
I am fairly sure the masu stem is used as the polite て-form here, so いただき would be similar to いただいて. I’ll have to see if I can find a source
Edit:
Random video (because I couldn’t find anything better in the few minutes I have ):
Didn’t watch the entire thing, but from the first few minutes it seemed like it was about the right thing.
Thank you for your help!
I always thought you need a comma when using the masu stem in as the formal conjunctive, so does that mean you don’t need one?
Not sure. I’m inclined to agree, since there normally is a comma, but I’m not certain if there needs to be one
Edit:
Not really a clear answer, but when google searching I can find plenty of examples from websites I wouldn’t expect to contain typos having いただき感謝する as well as いただきありがとうございます both with and without a comma, so I’m inclined to believe either is fine.
Would probably have to ask a knowledgable Japanese person to know for certain. I sure wouldn’t be able to give clear answers on German punctuation rules 
Lol, even most natives are having troubles with punctuation rules in German 
I’m the only person I know IRL that knows the rules haha
I’ve been advised to replace 客人方 by 客人 and confirmed that お持ちいただき感謝する is correct.
Thanks for letting me know 
It seems like 客人方 is correct as well, though:
Regarding the second one, we’re currently trying to make me understand it lol
It’s time for two more chapters from the TWC!
スリマンはマーカスに質問がありました。
(Suriman:) ブレスレットの使い方を教えてくれないか？
(Markus:) もちろん。ここのキーボードにある10個のキーを使ってメッセージを入力するんだ。
(Suriman:) なるほど。
(Markus:) そして、送信するにはこのキーを押す。
ドサ
Suriman had a question for Markus.
(Suriman:) Could you teach me how to use these bracelets?
(Markus:) Of course! You use these 10 keys on the keyboard here and input the message.
(Suriman:) I see.
(Markus:) And then you press this key to send it.
thud
広場の真ん中に巨大な岩が落ちてきました。
(Markus:) え？
(I forgot his name sorry:) ワームが目覚めたんだ。
ヒイィィィ
(Nadia:) しかも機嫌が悪そうね。
(Celestina:) 地面の揺れを感じるわ。
(Suriman:) 私についてきて。
A huge rock fell down on the middle of the quare.
(Markus:) Huh?
(I forgot his name sorry:) The worm has awakened.
shrieking
(Nadia:) He seems to be in a bad mood as well.
(Celestina:) I feel the ground shaking!
(Suriman:) Follow me!
Ooh thank you for this, I was starting to doubt my memory because I couldn’t find it at all in my Ja-En dictionary.
If it is I haven’t seen it explained explicitly that way! With these things it’s helpful to pay attention to where and how you see it, so this gives a vote for this combination, and over time you’ll see whether other verbs combine with it like that. Once you start noticing it, you’ll see verb stem + verb combos all the time, many with distinct meanings
I see 感謝する by itself all the time though.
And as others have said, the stem of a masu form is a common way to nominalise verbs, but you’ll learn more, and over time you build up patterns.
For these super polite forms, it’s just good to be aware they are there and be aware it’s a specific politeness register that has been chosen - and therefore judge all words in the sentence according to that register. So if you start now using neutral speech, then later you’ll learn how and when to shift more casual, more polite, more humble…
This has no end, for example, today I was talking to my friend about going to the dentist and she noted that 歯医者 is a word to use with friends, but if she was telling her boss she needed to leave work to see the dentist she would use 歯科医師 
that’s good to know ig
The keigo ocean keeps revealing itself to be deeper than I thought.