thoo
English
Etymology 1
Preposition
thoo
- Eye dialect spelling of through.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
thoo
Usage notes
- Historically also used north of the Humber-Lume line in (Northern) England, but now rare there.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English thou, thow, thu, þou, from Old English þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoun
thoo (objective case thee, vocative thee, possessive determiner thee)
- (Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you
- Thoo kens whit hid's like wi a hooseful o folk
- You know what it's like with a houseful of people
Usage notes
- thoo is used to address a friend, a family member or someone younger.
Further reading
- Flaws, Margaret, Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, →ISBN
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