th'

See also: th, Th, TH, 'th, -th, .th, th-, and Appendix:Variations of "th"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð/, /ðə/
• Rhymes: -ə

Contraction

th’

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of the.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     all knights of noble name, / That couet in th'immortall booke of fame / To be eternized [...].

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     Let's all sink wi' th' king.

   • March 25 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "On the Slave Trade", in The Watchman

     Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
     The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
     With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
     To forms of beauty […]

2. (colloquial) Contraction of there.
   • 1891, Edith Bower in The Overland Monthly, Volume XVII., page #135:

     She crossed her hand an’ turned her face up like a bird does, only th’ ain’t no birds what can sing like she did; seemed like she was n’t a‐doin’ of it at all,—voice came out of itself, like ’s if ’t was just a waitin’ for a change to git out.

Anagrams

• HT, h/t, ht

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h/

Determiner

th’

1. Munster form of d’ (“your sg”)

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Etymology 1

Article

th'

1. Alternative form of a (“the”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Fhaade th' veezer.

     What the wiser.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

th'

1. Alternative form of thou (“you”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Th' weithest.

     Thou seemest.

Etymology 3

Determiner

th'

1. Alternative form of thee (“thy”)
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 5:

     Th' Eccellencie.

     Your Excellency.

Etymology 4

Pronoun

th'

1. Alternative form of at (“that”)
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 10:

     th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,

     that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 75, 77 & 114