oþ
Old English
Pronunciation
Preposition
oþ
- (with accusative) until, as far as, up to, down to
- Iċ wysċte þæt iċ meahte oþ Cristes mæssan slāpan.
- I wished that I could sleep until Christmas.
- fram þǣm ēagþyrle oþ þone weall
- from the window to the wall
- Iċ lēt mīnne sunu rinnan oþ þone weald.
- I let my son run as far as the forest.
- Iċ cann tellan oþ tīen.
- I can count to ten.
- þrītiġ oþ fīftiġ wildra swīna
- thirty to fifty feral hogs
- Þæt wæter wæs nū oþ hiere cnēowum.
- The water was now up to her knees.
- c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
- Hē behȳdde þæt sweord oþ þā hiltan.
- He concealed the sword up to the hilt.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 32:24
- Ān enġel wraxlode wiþ hine oþ morgen.
- An angel wrestled with him until morning.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 24:38-39
- On þǣm dagum ǣr þǣm flōde wǣron menn etende and drincende, and wīfiġende and ġifte sellende, oþ þone dæġ þe Nōe on þā earċe ēode, and hīe nyston ǣr se flōd cōm and nām hīe ealle.
- In the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all.
Conjunction
oþ
- (usually with þæt) until
- Ne telle man nǣnne mann ġesǣliġne oþ þæt hē biþ dēad.
- No one should be considered lucky until he is dead.
- Oþ þæt hē hit cwæþ, nyste hē nā hwæt hē cweðan wolde.
- Until he said it, he did not know what he was going to say.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Festival of Saint Peter the Apostle"
- Hīe ēodon forþ oþ þæt hīe cōmon tō ānum wīċe.
- They kept walking until they came to a street.