þaðan
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Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
þaðan (not comparable)
- from there, thence
- Ég og samfangar mínir komumst þaðan óséðir á meðan vörðurinn svaf.
- I and my fellow prisoners managed to escape from there without being seen while the guard was sleeping.
- Hljóðið kom þaðan!
- The sound came from there!
See also[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the stem of þar (“there”), þaðra (“thither”) + -an (ablative adverb). Compare héðan, hvaðan.
Adverb[edit]
þaðan (not comparable)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: þaðan
- Faroese: haðan, haðani
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dedan (in expressions)
- Old Swedish: þæþan
- Old Gutnish: þeþan
- Old Danish: thæthæn, thæthan
- Danish: deden
- Middle English: þennes
- English: thence
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- þaðan in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.