tho
English
Pronunciation
- (when stressed)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ðəʊ/
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- Rhymes: -əʊ
- (when unstressed)
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tho, tha, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þā pl (“the, those”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do pl (“the”).
Article
tho
- (obsolete, West Country) The (plural form); those.
- (Can we date this quote by Reginald Pecock and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Three trowings or opinions be causes and grounds of many and of well nigh all the errors which many of the lay party hold, and by which holding they unjustly and overmuch wite and blame the clergy and all heir (their) other neighbors of the lay side, which not hold tho same errors accordingly with hem (them), and therefore it is much need for to first give business to unroot and overturn tho three trowings, holdings, or opinions, before the improving of other; sithen if tho three be sufficiently improved, that is to say, if it be sufficiently proved that tho three be nought and untrue and bad, all the other untrue opinions and holdings built upon hem or upon any of hem must needs thereby take heir fall, and lack it whereby they might in any color or seeming be maintained, held, and supported.
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Tho stalwart knights.
- (Can we date this quote by Reginald Pecock and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Pronoun
tho
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tho, tha, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þā (“then, when”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).
Adverb
tho (not comparable)
- (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
- 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː
- Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calenderː Januaryeː
- Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.
- 1642, Henry More, Song Soulː
- Tho I gan closely on his person look.
- 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː
Conjunction
tho
Etymology 3
American English; alteration of though. Compare tho'.
Adverb
tho (not comparable)
Anagrams
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat.
Article
tho
- the
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
- omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the
- but to all utterances one prefixes the article tho or the
- omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Usage notes
While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.
Old Saxon
Adverb
thô
Scots
Pronunciation
Adverb
tho (comparative mair tho, superlative maist tho)
Welsh
Noun
tho
- Aspirate mutation of to.
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